Static DNS overrides DNS Forwarder
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If I go into General Setup I can set a static DNS instead of taking the ones provided by my ISP, but if I do this the DNS Forwarder entries stop working.
The problem I'm having is that the WAN DNSs dissapear from now and then, but are still reachable, leaving my whole network without DNS service.
I use the DNS Forwarder to access the internal websites through the external domain.
Is there any way to use a manual DNS along with manual DNS Forwarder entries?
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I don't understand what this means:
@brah:The problem I'm having is that the WAN DNSs dissapear from now and then, but are still reachable, leaving my whole network without DNS service.
Until I read "but are still reachable" I thought you meant your manually specified WAN DNSs went offline for a while.
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I don't understand what this means:
@brah:The problem I'm having is that the WAN DNSs dissapear from now and then, but are still reachable, leaving my whole network without DNS service.
Until I read "but are still reachable" I thought you meant your manually specified WAN DNSs went offline for a while.
They don't go offline, they just disappear from the interface, which is why everything work fine if I set them as static.
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I ended up setting the DNSs manually on the General Setup. Contrary to what the hint says, if you disable the override checkbox, the DNS Forwarder still works.
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Contrary to what the hint says, if you disable the override checkbox, the DNS Forwarder still works.
It (the DNS forwarder) should should still work, unless you disable the DNS forwarder. That override box doesn't disable the DNS forwarder it just controls where the DNS forwarder gets its name service: the DNS in the box above OR the DNS specified by the DHCP server upstream of the WAN interface.
@brah:I don't understand what this means:
@brah:The problem I'm having is that the WAN DNSs dissapear from now and then, but are still reachable, leaving my whole network without DNS service.
Until I read "but are still reachable" I thought you meant your manually specified WAN DNSs went offline for a while.
They don't go offline, they just disappear from the interface, which is why everything work fine if I set them as static.
Sorry, but I don't understand the explanation: from what interface do the DNSs disappear?
Back to the original statement:
@brah:If I go into General Setup I can set a static DNS instead of taking the ones provided by my ISP, but if I do this the DNS Forwarder entries stop working.
I have two static DNSs specified in General Setup to override DNS specified by my ISP. My DNS forwarder entries (specified on Services -> DNS forwarder) work. This has continued to work across a number of reboots.