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Allow Custom DHCP Settings
My Orbi 770 mesh was not cheap. In fact, it was expensive. I purchased it right after it was released. I use pi-hole to block ads AND manage local DNS. The problem is that the Orbi's DNS proxy will not forward the unqualified or ".local" qualified names internally to my pi-hole server. In addition, I have had some intermittently flaky behavior on resolving some DNS names, specifically Docker Hub. I have tried multiple workarounds, nothing works. Please don't tell me to manually manage my DNS configurations on all of my clients. That's unreasonable. Please don't tell me to offload my DHCP to my pi-hole node. I don't want to mess with needing to stand up a DHCP node for my guest network. This should be simple enough. Why, oh why, can there not be an advanced config option to manually adjust the client parameters provided by the Orbi DHCP server? Have a checkbox that allows you to go in and directly change the primary and secondary DNS servers. It seems straight-forward to me; but I admit I don't have to manage the firmware code base. If it is too much, please tell me with a reasonable explanation as to why that is the case. Please consider my request. I know there are others Orbi users out there in the same boat.Feature request: DNS privacy
While it's great that we can designate our own DNS servers on the routers, instead of just using the ones provided by our ISPs, it would be even better if you could integrate DNS-over-TLS and/or DNS-over-HTTPS into the firmware. This would allow us to query DNS servers (e.g., Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or Google's 8.8.8.8) without our ISPs being able to monitor our requests, giving us confidentiality from our ISPs and anyone along the path between our LAN and the DNS server; without our requests being able to be changed, ensuring integrity in the replies; and without having to run a separate service or piece of hardware on our networks for this purpose, increasing availability, at least from a certain perspective, as not everyone has the resources or ability to run their own local DNS server capable of using one of these two standards.Allow setting of DNS search domain
I have an Orbi RBR350 (https://www.netgear.com/support/product/rbr350) but I assume this will apply to others as well. I can set the DNS server to our local DNS server but I cannot set the search domain. As it therefore doesn't tell clients the search domain, I need to configure them all manually. Hopefully a future firmware upgrade could introduce this feature.Pi-Hole as an app/plugin for Netgear Orbi
I think it would be pretty awesome if Netgear made their Network devices like the Netgear Orbi support the free software called Pi-Hole via an app/plugin support feature on the device itself. For those that dont know Pi-Hole is a FREE network wide ad blocker that you install on a Raspberry Pi and then after its installed on Raspberry Pi you connect the Raspberry Pi to your router and setup the Raspberry Pi as the DNS server. I would love to see Netgear make Pi-Hole compatible with their devices without having to buy a Raspberry Pi, maybe add it as a plugin or addon that you can install on Netgear devices? This is the link where you can learn more about Pi-Hole Link: https://pi-hole.net/DHCP Configuration / DNS Configuration
R7900 - Requesting additional DNS configuration within Router Setup Configuration. I only see one place to set the DNS and I believe there needs to be two. One for what DNS server(s) the router itself should use and a second entry for setting what DNS server(s) the clients should use. Without being able to set this, the DHCP settings provided by the router specify the router address as the DNS server. Why does this matter? If you are using tools like Pi-Hole all traffic is shown to come from the router. This does not allow you to identify which host is making DNS requests. You can manually update the DNS server(s) the clients are using, but this should be a configuration setting within the router configuration. https://community.netgear.com/t5/General-WiFi-Routers/R7900-DNS-Configuration/m-p/1648068#M71208
