In fw 8.1.2 WAN details now has 2 bugs

Product Discussion Peplink Balance
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It has been known for a while that ISP DNS is incorrectly shown in the router UI when looking at WAN details. With the introduction of DoH in fw 8.2 the DNS info shown for WAN details is now doubly wrong as it does not include the DoH setting which over-rides any specified IPv4 addresses for old insecure DNS.

The screen shot is from a Balance 20x running fw 8.2. The red arrow shows the ISP DNS. The green arrow shows Quad9. The router is using Cloudflare with DoH.

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Here you see the DoH setting for Cloudflare.

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2

DoH and WAN DNS are 2 different settings. So, the IP you configured in DoH will not show on the WAN status.

3

As a user interface enhancement (perhaps move this to the new features section) it would be nice to be reminded in the WAN status that DoH was live as it means the displayed DNS IP addresses are not in effect.

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