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How do I get my (Netgear) router to tell devices to use a different IP for DNS (RFC 1497 code 6) or get my router to actually handle DNS queries?
I have a Netgear Nighthawk router. I am getting great Internet speeds (900+ symmetrical), consistently. DNS through the router doesn't work consistently. The router allows me to customize whether to use the DNS IP from my ISP, or I can customize it to google, or something. However, no matter what settings I've found to change on the router, when any of my devices connect to the router, by default they get the DNS server as the IP address of the router. RFC 1497 code 6 is the part of DHCP that configures DNS. But I don't seem to be able to configure this on my router. (If you know of a way to d
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