BT Smart Hub IPv6 Stateless forced DNS options

[mhoam]

Hi @sw25481 

Sadly BT appears to believe IPv6 is a minority interest despite the fact that most modern devices will use it by default. As you can see there has been no response to the request from the original poster.

I also wished to use my own DNS server so I chose to use a third party router on my BT FTTP connection. This enabled me to control IPv6 in the way I needed.

Good luck 

[qbatqbat]

It's disappointing to hear that this is being forced. I only just placed my order to move to BT yesterday and have spent a lot of the last 24 hours reading though messages on this forum. IPv6 is one of the reasons I am switching however I've learnt since that I can't use my own router as Digital Voice won't work, and I won't easily be able to start using IPv6 as I won't have control of which DNS servers are used (if I want IPv6 to work!)

Please consider adding this configuration option as others have requested. Although I understand most won't have a need for it, it is pretty significant for us that do.

[NickStrugnell]

Apologies to resurrect an old thread but I just got bitten by this.

I have set up a local DNS (just bog standard IPv4 DNS running on a synology NAS) server to resolve some local hostnames.

Our windows and linux devices find it fine and can resolve local hostnames.

Our apple devices (both Mac and iPhone) cannot resolve local hostnames.

Why? Because they prefer IPv6 so go to the blasted BT hub that has advertised it is a nameserver. But which of course knows nothing about the stuff in my private domain. Then they give up and don't even bother querying the DNS server they got in their DHCP lease.

According to an earlier post by Paul, devices should prioritise nameservers they received in their DHCP lease over ones they got via RDNSS however it seems that Apple ignore this.

So basically, if you run a local DNS server, and have Apple devices in the house, you need to switch off IPv6 on the router.