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DirtyWilly
Aug 20, 2021Star
R8500 Latest Firmware Version V1.0.2.154 Broke DNS!
Hello, the latest firmware version V1.0.2.154 for the R8500 router appears to have broken DNS! I have to refresh pages multiple times to get them to load. Attached is the most common error. DNS_PR...
_Daniel_
Oct 16, 2021Initiate
Hi all,
I upgraded my Netgear firmware of the R8500 also to V1.0.2.154 some weeks ago and noticed the DNS problems of the R8500 not right away, because they are not present on my wireless connected devices and also not on my Windows 7 wired and wirless connected devices. However, on my Windows 10 wired connected devices they are very present (one DNS resolving failure every two minutes surfing) and really annoying.
As all other devices do not have this problem I did not expect a infrastructur problem like from being the router and thought it must be a Win10 problem. Also because of the randomness of the error occurring, I spent hours in searching and even reinstalled Windows on one computer...
Today I spent another couple of hours till I noticed it has to be a router problem and figured out the R8500 firmware is the problem thanks to this thread! So thank you very much for writing this problem in this forum and shame on you, Netgear, that you did not fix this problem in over two months!
As a workaround I now configured on my two Win 10 clients the DNS manually, which solved this problem. However, this is still a workaround. I hope the fix for this problem is comming soon, as I am currently not sure, if my next network devices will be from Netgear, although I bought all network devices in the past 15 years (or even longer) from Netgear and that is a double-digit amount. A bug in a firmware can happen (but should not, as this problem should have been detected if the firmware would have been properly tested before release), but over two months waiting for a bugfix is a really long time.
Also that no official communication form the Mods/Admins of this forum is present in this thread is also not satisfying, despite an ETA of a fw release that fixes this bug.
Kind regards from a guy who wasted about two days in investigation of the error because of this firmware bug,
Daniel
eddyfrenchy
Nov 06, 2021Aspirant
I also tried firmware R8500-V1.0.2.156_1.0.105 today (Nov 6 2021). Same issue : (
Rollback to R8500-V1.0.2.144_1.0.99 that was released January 2021.
- CaledonKenNov 06, 2021Star
Thanks for posting results. Save us all a lot of time.
- CogXNov 07, 2021Aspirant
Oh, just asked on a different thread if R8500-V1.0.2.156_1.0.105 had fixed the DNS bug, but I see not. Unbelievable.
- FURRYe38Nov 07, 2021Guru
So roll back then:
- CaledonKenDec 13, 2021Star
Are any of the posters on this thread having success with version 156 with respect to this error? That is, does v156 fix this DNS issue?