[Aidan]

I managed to get hold of a AX-58U ASUS router for a good price, but cannot upgrade with Merlin firmware as it is V2. Not having much look, haha.

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If I change WAN DNS to Pi-hole it stops connection. If I change LAN DNS to router it works but pi-hole stops responding. Just one of those anomolies. I might get an uptodate ASUS router to use latest firmware.

 

Thanks for support anyway.

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If I disconnect pi-hole then both LAN and WAN clients use the router as DNS but do use the seperate DNS correctly.

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Both LAN and WAN clients both use the DNS of Pi-hole.

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Pi-hole does have DHCP but I’m not using it as I have set dhcp in ASUS router for LAN clients. Not using the guest WiFi either.

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No difference after reboot. Not sure why it’s forcing wan clients to use dns of vpn. Tried loads of different settings but to no avail.

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I just put Pihole to DMZ but still using DNS from VPN.

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If i just select DMZ which ip to I need to put in there?

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If I remove the Pi-hole from the situation, then the wan clients start using Quad9. Ummm must be something in the Pi-hole setup.

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No, now you mention it is wasn’t doing that before.

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Hi,

I’ve changed the accept DNS to disabled but it made no difference. I do have Wan DNS set to Quad9 on Asus router and the main router. Lan on Asus is set to Pi-hole and it is blocking ads.

My VPN is set to Luxembourg and when I do a DNS leak test on a WAN client it is using the DNS of VPN which is also Luxembourg.

Aside from this I am running Unbound with Pi-hole but that hasn’t caused any issues that I know of.

 

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Hi,

Yes, I am running Merlin firmware at 384.13_10 which is quite old but as you said it is not supported any longer. I may have to update my router to a newer model. Just thought I would be able to get this to work. I know the latest firmware has a tab for director.

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