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R6220 Stops Forwarding DNS Requests
Hello, I recently purchased a Netgear Genie R6220 Wireless router. The firmware is currently V1.1.0.31_1.0.1. I have noticed that every hour or so, DNS queries outbound begin to fail. This happen...
And as a point of clarity to the above post for anyone reading this:
"This time, I manually set my DNS records on my PC so that they weren't forwarded to the the IP of the router, but the IP of a DNS server, and web browsing works again. Set them back to the router, and browsing fails."
The manual IPs I set for DNS servers was 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2.
The configured DNS forwarders on the Netgear were also 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2.
So they were both pointed to the same servers, but having the netgear forward the request fails.
Solution: Bypass netgear handling of DNS and use the netgear as an AP-only. Unfortunate, because AP mode turns off a lot of advanced features of the netgear.
Joe
Ugh. It *was* working fine, and now without a USB Drive plugged in the same thing happened. This time, I manually set my DNS records on my PC so that they weren't forwarded to the the IP of the router, but the IP of a DNS server, and web browsing works again. Set them back to the router, and browsing fails.
My next step is to put the Netgear into AP mode (bridge mode), take my modem out of bridge mode, let my modem handle DHCP/Firewall rules/DNS.
A shame, I like the interface of the netgear :(, and the ISP modem leaves a lot to be desired.
And as a point of clarity to the above post for anyone reading this:
"This time, I manually set my DNS records on my PC so that they weren't forwarded to the the IP of the router, but the IP of a DNS server, and web browsing works again. Set them back to the router, and browsing fails."
The manual IPs I set for DNS servers was 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2.
The configured DNS forwarders on the Netgear were also 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2.
So they were both pointed to the same servers, but having the netgear forward the request fails.
Solution: Bypass netgear handling of DNS and use the netgear as an AP-only. Unfortunate, because AP mode turns off a lot of advanced features of the netgear.
Joe