Hi,
I am having an extremely weird issue if no one else could solve this its 100% a bug as I cannot get my head around it.
I've just purchased a new ER605 set it up all worked fine, now I have a pi hole server which runs my DNS and DHCPs always worked fine with my previous router no issues. now when setting up the router I had my primary DNS set to 192.168.0.2 (dns and dhcp server) I connect to the internet perfectly fine and all other hosts are fine too.
I noticed in the system logs that router cannot connect to NTP server, so I did a quick ping test from the router - the router was not connecting to the outside and it said it couldnt reach DNS !!! even though everyone is connected to the internet. so what I did was I added a secondary DNS server 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 (external DNS server) and boom it connected to the outside and synced with the NTP all working fine.
NOW the main issue I found is, my pihole (which is also an adblocker) was acting a bit weird on the logs so I thought ill give the router a ping to test it out and the pings were not reaching, yet everyone else can ping the router perfectly fine.
ping log from pihole machine:
$ ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
41 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 637ms
$ traceroute 192.168.0.1
traceroute to 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.741 ms 0.680 ms 0.378 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
goes on to 30 * * *
I did a lot of search online and I simply could not find where the issue was. The only way I could make the DNS/DHCP Server (pihole) to ping the router was when I removed the DNS primary ip (192.168.0.2) from the PPPoe settings and had 8.8.8.8 instead !!! that is so weird.
I am not an expert in routing but I know my way around it a "bit" - when I do an ip route check the following shows. (this is the routers ip route table).
ID Destination IP Subnet Mask Next Hop Interface Metric
1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 195.*.*.* WAN 0
2 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 lo 0
3 168.*.*.* 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 eth1.4094 0
4 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255 195.*.*.* WAN 0
5 195.*.*.* 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 WAN 0
6 8.8.8.8 255.255.255.255 195.*.*.* WAN 0
7 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 LAN 0
now I dont know about you guys but ID 4 doesnt look right to me? I could be wrong... by the way these all automatically generated.
Do you reckon i will need to add a manual static ip route? if so, what ip route?
Could someone please HELP as I have no other ideas...
Many Thanks in advance.
I am having an extremely weird issue if no one else could solve this its 100% a bug as I cannot get my head around it.
I've just purchased a new ER605 set it up all worked fine, now I have a pi hole server which runs my DNS and DHCPs always worked fine with my previous router no issues. now when setting up the router I had my primary DNS set to 192.168.0.2 (dns and dhcp server) I connect to the internet perfectly fine and all other hosts are fine too.
I noticed in the system logs that router cannot connect to NTP server, so I did a quick ping test from the router - the router was not connecting to the outside and it said it couldnt reach DNS !!! even though everyone is connected to the internet. so what I did was I added a secondary DNS server 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 (external DNS server) and boom it connected to the outside and synced with the NTP all working fine.
NOW the main issue I found is, my pihole (which is also an adblocker) was acting a bit weird on the logs so I thought ill give the router a ping to test it out and the pings were not reaching, yet everyone else can ping the router perfectly fine.
ping log from pihole machine:
$ ping 192.168.0.1
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics ---
41 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 637ms
$ traceroute 192.168.0.1
traceroute to 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.741 ms 0.680 ms 0.378 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
goes on to 30 * * *
I did a lot of search online and I simply could not find where the issue was. The only way I could make the DNS/DHCP Server (pihole) to ping the router was when I removed the DNS primary ip (192.168.0.2) from the PPPoe settings and had 8.8.8.8 instead !!! that is so weird.
I am not an expert in routing but I know my way around it a "bit" - when I do an ip route check the following shows. (this is the routers ip route table).
ID Destination IP Subnet Mask Next Hop Interface Metric
1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 195.*.*.* WAN 0
2 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 lo 0
3 168.*.*.* 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 eth1.4094 0
4 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255 195.*.*.* WAN 0
5 195.*.*.* 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 WAN 0
6 8.8.8.8 255.255.255.255 195.*.*.* WAN 0
7 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0 LAN 0
now I dont know about you guys but ID 4 doesnt look right to me? I could be wrong... by the way these all automatically generated.
Do you reckon i will need to add a manual static ip route? if so, what ip route?
Could someone please HELP as I have no other ideas...
Many Thanks in advance.