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      thorer01
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      look in the 3rd image i posted of the he.net app. You can see for nameserver entry it lists
      (defaults: , ,10.0.0.9)
      correct it looks like (default: 10.0.0.9, 10.0.0.10,)

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by johnpoz

        Are other dhcp clients getting it correctly? Sniff the dhcp offer, does it list them both correctly..

        I run ios on my phone, my wifes phone and tablet... Never seen any issues.. I do the same thing hand dhcp clients my pihole IP..

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          thorer01
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          yes the dhcp offer and the router advertisement show the correct dns servers.

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            well than - look to your clients...

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              thorer01
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              yeah i am, i was just hoping someone had seen this before. The people in this forum are a lot smarter than most.

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                Nope never seen such a thing... Been using iphone and ipad with pfsense for like ever..

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Mmm, that does seem odd. Do the affected clients always show that? It could just be a display issue with the app.

                  I've not seen anything like that either.

                  Steve

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                    thorer01 @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 I also thought it could just be a display issue. But performance was bad when i set dns to automatic, and when i set it to manual, the performance was good and the display was correct.

                    Its seems like ios is getting/parsing and blank entry for dns, that eventually times out and it moves on to the next server in the list which is successful.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by johnpoz

                      What version of ios are you running?

                      What happens if you set your dhcp server to just 1 IP?

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                        thorer01
                        last edited by

                        12.2

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by

                          And you have multiple devices doing this?

                          What does it look like under automatic? Do you have blank lines... Not the HE display, the normal wifi little i button when your connected.

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                            thorer01
                            last edited by

                            Thats the 4th screen shot i posted, under automatic it look completely normal

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                              last edited by

                              What if you just turn off IPv6... You sure HE not just able to show the really long IPv6 addresses..

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                                thorer01
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                                sure i can try.

                                But that wouldnt explain why it takes me less than a second eyeballing to to get a dns entry when it is set to manual in ios. and i just counted 8 seconds when it was set to automatic. Same domain each time that would be cached by the upstream.

                                Either way this is clearly not a pfsense issue but an iOS.

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                                • johnpozJ
                                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                  last edited by

                                  well when you manually set it only going to do ipv4?

                                  Turn off ipv6.. Does that make your issue go away?

                                  With ipv6 still off, set ipv4 to only 1 dns.. You sure this dns is working ;)

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