Recent content by CalB

I'm not sure if it was yours or mine, but something made it to start working. I disabled NAT ACC on the secondary router. Considering how long it took for the setting to apply, I imagined it did reboot the router. It did not work. A couple of minutes after I decided to manually reboot it, and...

No, the DHCP on the AX router does not include any assignments that would fall under the "local lan" of the other router.

That's why you need to setup a route on the main router, to know where to send the packets for the second subnet. Basically that tells the main router (AX): "Please send all the packets for the 2nd router's lan (192.168.20.0/24) to its "internet" facing IP". The same setup works perfectly...

The DNS is on the local lan of the AX router, the same one with the "internet" facing interface of the AC router. DNS is fine, the name is resolved. That's why, if you look at the packet captures, an initial TCP connection is established. The 3-way handshake completes. I've got sidetracked by a...

Correct, no AI protection, no QoS on either of them, no skynet. VPN & Firewall only on the ISP-facing one I do have DHCP on both, but I don't see how that would impact things, each has its own lan (I did try with static IP as well) As for the WAN, nothing fancy on this one That's my Adguard...

It's off

I have 2 Asus routers, both running Merlin wrt: - an RT-AX86U - the ISP facing router, 192.168.a.0/24 local plan -an older RT-AC87U (wan IP on 192.168.a.0/24 lan, and it's local plan is 192.168.b.0/24). I am trying to use the older router as a normal router,... as in route between different...

If the clients use AGH as dns and not the router itself, they won't. LAN DHCP set the dns to AGH IP and untick the option for the router to advertise itself as well.

It can be set in multiple ways, but basically: 1. Point the WAN DNS server towards your AGH IP (click assign, scroll all the way to the bottom, input AGH ip, hit apply) 2. Go to the DNS redirector, enable it (towards the router or AGH IP) and add an exception for AGH MAC (no redirection or...

YES, that was the issue! (on Pi at least), the rebind protection. Once again, thank you very much. Now I have a working baseline that I know works, and can test it against adguard setups :)

That's exactly what I did, that's how I ended up with the IP there, by clicking assing and manually adding the Pi's IP all the way at the bottom then pressing apply. My thought would have been I might have edited the conf file wrong since I'm not that familiar with what a correct config should...

Since the original post, I switched the WAN DNS as well. So, for Pi, this would be what I tried. Wan setup 13.254 is my Pi (I don't think DoT works, on Adguard my phone shows as using DoT, but not on the Pi. Still playing with that option, but that's beside the point) : This is the redirector...

Pi-hole's behaviour seems to be the same. The bottom 2 queries are from an extension on my laptop's browser and the top one I've done a manual nslookup. The laptop has a manually assigned 8.8.8.8 DNS but the request is intercepted by the redirector. Hey, at least now I have a Pi setup almost...

Thanks for the reply. At least now I know it wasn't me misconfiguring something, as I expected. Might as well play a bit with pihole or maybe blocky to see what's what :)

Thank you for the input anyway. I wonder if the DNS director keeps any logs on the router itself.