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Netgear X4s with Voxel FW: How to set DNS for the DHCP server?

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I have a Netgear X4S router with Voxels v.1.0.2.70SF installed. I recently got AT&T gigabit fiber internet so I upgraded my home network. I will try my best to explain my setup : I have the AT&T internet plugged into my WAN port on my Netgear X4s with Voxels latest FW (Wifi is disabled on my X4S). From the LAN port on my X4S a CAT7 cable goes to a Netgear 16 port POE switch. There are 5 TP-Link EAP245 APs , one TP-Link Omada cloud controller and one Raspberry Pi with Pihole installed connected to the Netgear POE switch. Everything is running flawlessly.

Now my issue is that when I try to set the DNS server on my X4s under Advanced -> internet settings to the Pihole IP address my internet stops working. To over come this I have to set the DNS server(pi hole IP) manually on all my devices which is like 40+ devices. Is there anyway to set the DNS for the DHCP server rather than configuring it under Internet settings? I know my old asus router has this option and I believe the ubiquitti edge routers have this option too.
 
Looks like my Raspberry Pi 3 is a bottle neck, I do have Pihole, Kodi and a few other things running on it and when I enable the Pihole DHCP server my CPU usage spikes to 88%-100% and some of my devices do not get IP addresses assigned to them. If there is no other way to assign a DNS server for the DHCP server on my X4S I will just go ahead and buy the Edge Router 4.
 

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