[MattBoothDev]

UK Sentinel wrote:

MattBoothDev wrote:

I don’t have much of a choice at the moment :( Though, I only paid £100 for this, new, in March! My previous Router is a Linksys WRT1900ACS had DD-WRT installed on it and I’d done what I could to harden that. This is a shame, though, because Asus’ software is pretty decent. EDIT: I’m also stuck for a single-box solution with my VDSL line, as well. With the Linksys I had to use an older TP-Link as the modem and have two boxes running.

This should be interesting when it arrives in the UK – https://uktechhub.com/forums/topic/asus-new-dsl-ax82u-modem-router-combo-wifi-6/

If that’s only £210 later this year that’s 100% going to be my next box.

 

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[MattBoothDev]

I don’t have much of a choice at the moment :( Though, I only paid £100 for this, new, in March!

My previous Router is a Linksys WRT1900ACS had DD-WRT installed on it and I’d done what I could to harden that. This is a shame, though, because Asus’ software is pretty decent.

EDIT:

I’m also stuck for a single-box solution with my VDSL line, as well. With the Linksys I had to use an older TP-Link as the modem and have two boxes running.

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[MattBoothDev]

Yes please :)

 

I was reading some more of this thread last night and gathered Asus abandoned this device a while back :/

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[MattBoothDev]

Route/Gateway is 192.168.1.1

DNS 1: 192.168.1.5

DNS 2: 192.168.1.6

Scenario:

When a computer makes a request for a new IP lease, it is given DNS IP(s) too.

Expected:

The IP(s) given are those configured in the LAN – DHCP page, DNS 1 and DNS 2 above. Therefore computers on the network make DNS requests directly to the server

Actual

The IP given is the gateway IP. DNS requests go to the Router/gateway first, then to the DNS servers. Causes some weirdness to happen sometimes.

The only way, currently, to change the DNS settings of this router are via the WAN settings.

My old Linksys had this functionality. At a push I could plug that in and run it as a switch and DHCP server, which would be able to give the correct  IPs but I’m pretty sure if the firmware/ROM is similar enough to Open-WRT or similar I could configure DHCP myself manually.

 

 

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[MattBoothDev]

Hey,

I want to set the DNS for the DHCP server/LAN rather than WAN as this causes an issue when using Pi-Hole (I suspect).

I’ve got two Pi-Hole DNS servers running on my network and set their IP’s in the WAN configuration. But I think this is causing an excessive amount of requests when the router does a phone-home. I’ve noticed that devices on the network get the gateway IP as the DNS address rather than the DNS servers.

Usually I’d set the DNS settings of the DHCP server and leave the WAN DNS alone (or set to OpenDNS 1.1.1.1) but there’s no option here. Would this be the sort of thing I’ve be able to change via SSH editing some sort of dhcp.conf?

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