The DNS Director thing might be due to the change RMerlin made a few Asus-Merlin versions back, since GNUton is based generally on the Asus-Merlin firmware.I updated directly from the previous GT-BE98_3006_102.4_1-gnuton1 to alpha2 and the router loses connection. Even if I do a hard reset and import the configuration. The problem only occurs when I have DNS Director active; I can't browse.
- CHANGED: Setting DNS Director to "Router" will now always
redirect to the router's own IP. Previously it
would redirect to the first DNS server configured
on the DHCP page (which defaults to the router
itself).
If you need DNS Director to redirect to an IP
configured in your DHCP settings, use a Custom DNS
entry in DNS Director. This makes it more consistant
with what the name implies, and was also necessary
for improved Guest Network support.
I did not set the DNS to “router” but to “user defined” pointing to the Pi-hole IP on my NAS.The DNS Director thing might be due to the change RMerlin made a few Asus-Merlin versions back, since GNUton is based generally on the Asus-Merlin firmware.

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