I suspect it’s the Linksys rather then anything nefarious from Starhub. Linksys has had a history of ridiculous DNS issues with its routers, just google it and you’ll see what I mean. I’ve been testing this POS router for awhile now and sheesh, hard to believe the nonsense I’m seeing. Talking to their tech support has been an exercise in futility; they’ve promised a fix for another issue I found and months on, I’m still waiting.
Anyways, the reason I think it’s the router and not starhub is because when I test the starhub connection without the Linksys, it’s pretty much working as expected. That said, I have seen starhub seemingly hijack DNS at another location with a completely different brand router. I did notice this seems to happen when the router is running firmware that’s provided by starhub, not when you flash it with the manufacturer’s stock firmware. If it is even available. So... who knows?
Also, if you go to the Linksys “troubleshooting” page generate a report, it states that it is still using starhub’s DNS servers for WAN. Your selected “alternative” static DNS appear only under “Local network”. What de heck does that mean? And how about if you’re running IPv6? Go ahead and try finding where you can change those settings. I’ll wait.
Perhaps it’s rather telling that if you go to Linksys online support and looks for instructions on changing the DNS, they helpfully tell you to first note what’s your ISP’s DNS address when you’re in “automatic DHCP” and then change to a static IP and input the SAME address....
I dunno lah. I’m just glad I didn’t have to pay for this POS.
