NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.

Forum Discussion

pedz's avatar
pedz
Guide
Feb 21, 2022
Solved

Set local DNS server

Netgear Nighthawk CAX30 (it isn't in the "model" list)   It appears I can not set the DNS server to be local.  My DNS (pi-hole) is at 192.168.1.2 but when I try to configure it, it replies that it ...
  • plemans's avatar
    plemans
    Feb 22, 2022

    log in through the gui then go to the advanced tab---->advanced setup---IPv6

    from there you'll be able to change the ipv6 dns

pedz's avatar
pedz
Guide
Feb 22, 2022

Yes.  I got the router to behave and got the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in it.  Pi-hole is working and I am using unbound which is a recursive DNS server so no one can really track my DNS queries.

 

Thank you for your help.