Mr. Nightsea
Occasional Visitor
Hi all,
I really need some advise here.
I'm banging my head against the wall trying to solve this issue.
So, I got the Asus RT-AX88u, satisfied with it but...it is giving me headaches regarding the DNS server settings.
I don't want to use my ISP DNS server so I changed it to the DNS.Watch servers, as I've always been using without problems on my AC68u.
Now here's where the problem starts. Set the DNS config to receive automatically the DNS servers config from my ISP works. I'm getting the local DNS server belonging to my ISP. As soon as I manually configure a different DNS server, testing it on IPLeak.net and DNS Leak Test, the config I'm getting good to a DNS server in Germany. I've tried various DNS servers but every test I do, goes to the server in Germany (IP: 195.181.174.168 - DataCamp Limited and also de Watch.Dog IP: 84.200.70.40 appears to be in Germany). I did a full reset of the router, same result.
I've now also configured the VPN Client on the Router, tried fiddling with that...no result either. Not even getting the DNS of my VPN provider....
So, with or without VPN, every time it's the German DNS servers I'm seeing on these test sites as soon as I step away from my horrible ISP DNS server.
I hope anybody can help me out here...
I really need some advise here.
I'm banging my head against the wall trying to solve this issue.
So, I got the Asus RT-AX88u, satisfied with it but...it is giving me headaches regarding the DNS server settings.
I don't want to use my ISP DNS server so I changed it to the DNS.Watch servers, as I've always been using without problems on my AC68u.
Now here's where the problem starts. Set the DNS config to receive automatically the DNS servers config from my ISP works. I'm getting the local DNS server belonging to my ISP. As soon as I manually configure a different DNS server, testing it on IPLeak.net and DNS Leak Test, the config I'm getting good to a DNS server in Germany. I've tried various DNS servers but every test I do, goes to the server in Germany (IP: 195.181.174.168 - DataCamp Limited and also de Watch.Dog IP: 84.200.70.40 appears to be in Germany). I did a full reset of the router, same result.
I've now also configured the VPN Client on the Router, tried fiddling with that...no result either. Not even getting the DNS of my VPN provider....
So, with or without VPN, every time it's the German DNS servers I'm seeing on these test sites as soon as I step away from my horrible ISP DNS server.
I hope anybody can help me out here...
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