Custom DNS settings

Routers
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I’m new to GL-iNet routers and am a bit confused about specifying upstream DNS server addresses. I want to use IPv4 DNS servers 1.1.1.2 and 9.9.9.9, and IPv6 DNS servers 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2620:fe::fe. There seems to be 2 different places to specify these addresses, but I suspect they may have differences. Those places are

  1. Admin > Network > DNS > DNS Server Settings
  2. LuCI > Network > DHCP and DNS > DNS forwardings

I would guess that the LuCI definitions take precedence but I haven’t seen that stated. Is that true?

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Do it on then GLinet UI and that will be enough.

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Okay. I’ve deleted the LuCI definitions. Is there any way to tell what DNS server is actually being used?

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This site will list what your DNS results return.

If you changed the DNS to cloudflare you can also use

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Also try https://www.dnsleaktest.com

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I have been looking at this recently, There are three that I have found. I do not use luci I am not sure it will work as expected.

  1. This one tells clients to use the routers IP for DNS # EG: 192.168.8.1
    DNS > DNS Server Settings DNS Server 1 1.1.1.2 DNS Server 2 9.9.9.9
  2. This one tells clients to use the The IP you specify for DNS # EG: in your case 1.1.1.2 and 9.9.9.9
    Network Settings > Lan DNS > DHCP Server > DNS Server 11.1.1.2 DNS Server 2 9.9.9.9

Example 2 is the same as using option 6 in dnsmasq

I am using mt6000 with beta firmware

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