For the past several months, I've noticed the when using my router as the DNS server, it appears to act odd, "Site cannot be reached" , "DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem" especially to NEW sites or sites that I infrequently visit.

At first I thought maybe it was my ISP, thus I changed within the router the DNS to 8.8.8.8 along with a variety of DNS servers, single and multiples. -The problem still persisted

I've then set my local DNS settings to go directly to the 8.8.8.8 - The problem goes away.

This happens with a variety of devices, OSes, & browsers: Windows 10/11, RPI, and Android, Edge, Chrome, Brave ( errors out 1st then usually refreshes automatically in about 10 seconds)

Any Ideas?

Thank you in advance, Greg

Some information about my router:

R8000p Firmware: V1.4.2.84_1.3.42 GUI: V1.4.1.70_2.1.46.1 IP6V disabled

Debug information pulled today (3/22/2022) (All files have old odd dates 9/11/2021 - only places that recent files are in /tmp/d2d)

dhcp_dns=8.8.8.8

wan_dns=0.0.0.0
wan_dns1=8.8.8.8
wan_dns_sel=1

services:
15988 nobody 4140 S dnsRedirectReplyd
16068 nobody 1960 S dnsmasq -h -n -c 0 -N -i br0 -r /tmp/resolv.conf -I

16144 nobody 6244 S ddnsd &

========nslookup www.google.com===========
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address 1: 8.8.8.8 dns.google

Name: www.google.com
Address 1: 142.250.190.68 ord37s34-in-f4.1e100.net
Address 2: 2607:f8b0:4009:804::2004 ord38s18-in-x04.1e100.net
========nslookup www.netgear.com===========
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address 1: 8.8.8.8 dns.google

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