MotFPS Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Like many people, I don't want to be forced to use my ISP's DNS servers. Where is the DNS options in the DumaOS? I'd like to use 1.1.1.1 or 9.9.9.9 or even my own pihole DNS server, however I can't see how this is possible under the latest version of Duma on the XR1000. currently, I have a couple options disable DHCP on the XR1000 and run an external DHCP server to regain DNS options. keep the DHCP server on the XR1000 and give up my privacy when it comes to DNS. The most basic of basic home routers let users specify a custom DNS server. I'm disappointed but I'd like to see what the forums say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMoD1998 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Not sure about the XR1000 but for the XR700 on dumaos 3.0 its under internet settings in Setup -> Internet Setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 26, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 26, 2020 Exactly as above, they both use Netgear settings so will be in the same place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 Excellent! Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 I'm having a problem now. When I specify my pihole in the DNS IP, I get the error popup. 😪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 26, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 26, 2020 Sounds like you need to connect the PiHole to the ISP router and then use the IP for DNS that the ISP router gives the Pi and then it should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 That would mean my Pihole would be public facing and susceptible to internet attack. What we really need is the DHCP DNS options available to the user. I don't need to modify the DNS server the WAN settings use, I need to modify what my LAN uses. I'd like to use the DHCP server built-in but it's looking more and more like I will have to use my own DHCP server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 Not a bad idea to use my own DHCP server anyway. The built in one is extremely buggy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 26, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 26, 2020 55 minutes ago, MotFPS said: That would mean my Pihole would be public facing and susceptible to internet attack. What we really need is the DHCP DNS options available to the user. I don't need to modify the DNS server the WAN settings use, I need to modify what my LAN uses. I'd like to use the DHCP server built-in but it's looking more and more like I will have to use my own DHCP server. 49 minutes ago, MotFPS said: Not a bad idea to use my own DHCP server anyway. The built in one is extremely buggy! As it would be behind your ISP/main router that will have a firewall that protects it. You set those addresses yourself, it let you create duplicate reservation addresses for different devices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 26, 2020 Author Share Posted December 26, 2020 My apologies Fraser, I wasn't that clear with my home setup. The XR1000 is the only router on my network. My ISP connection is a modem which provides a single public IP connection. The XR1000 is connected to the single ethernet port on the ISP modem to the XR1000 WAN port. Changing the DNS server in the internet settings page on the XR1000 to my DNS server on the LAN results in the error I linked above. My thoughts are this setting is only for WAN facing IPs for public DNS servers. I'd like to change the LAN DHCP options to customize the DHCP settings to use my private DNS server on my LAN. Almost all consumer based routers enable the user to do this. Example on uploaded picture. It looks like this isn't an option to the user in the XR1000 which is really disappointing. If that's something that can be changed, I'd love to see that feature! I will make a separate thread on the DHCP bugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 27, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 27, 2020 Thanks for clarifying, so I just tried this on the XR500 where the settings are the same. I used 192.168.1.10 primary and 1.1.1.1 secondary and it worked fine for me. Could you try that perhaps and see if it works please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Quote Thanks for clarifying, so I just tried this on the XR500 where the settings are the same. I used 192.168.1.10 primary and 1.1.1.1 secondary and it worked fine for me. Could you try that perhaps and see if it works please? What happens if you go to add a static dynamic reservation. That's how I was getting that error. I then noticed that no traffic was going to my LAN DNS ip. For you, that's 192.168.1.10. Is it actually seeing traffic? My experience was even though it was specified as the primary, no traffic ever made it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 27, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 27, 2020 Yes that all appeared to work for me. Do you have Armor enabled on the XR? That could be interfering so please disable that using the Nighthawk app and see if it works better after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotFPS Posted December 27, 2020 Author Share Posted December 27, 2020 Copy that. I'll report back. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisuck Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 The best thing you can do is disable DHCP on the XR1000 and setup DHCP on the pihole in the pihole settings instead. Doing so will have PiHole issue the proper DNS settings to clients. Having 1.1.1.1 as secondary will bypass your PiHole setup in some cases. Currently running PiHole + Unbound on my XR500 and this is the setup I'm using. I've also went into the XR500 Settings -> Content Filtering -> Block Services and blocked DNS for the DHCP range on my PiHole so clients can't use services outside of PiHole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gisuck Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Also forgot to mention that I also set all 3 DNS server settings to my PiHole since the XR500 runs DNSMasq that can't be turned off. This will make sure that clients that uses the router for DNS requests to forward them to PiHole as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Netduma Fraser Posted December 28, 2020 Administrators Share Posted December 28, 2020 Great advice @gisuck thanks for your input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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