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Secondary DNS Server not working
Hello, the secondary DNS servers pushed to the router by DHCP are not working, both for IPv4 and IPv6. This has been ongoing for a while. The above is captured from the router. Pinging...
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Official Support Team
Official Support TeamInstead of using a standard ping, the best way to verify if your secondary DNS is actually failing is to force a direct DNS lookup against it using nslookup in your command prompt:
nslookup google.com 75.153.171.116
If this returns an IP address for Google, the server's healthy and actively working, despite ignoring standard ping requests. Give that a try and let us know what results you get.
