Do these lookups ever hit public nameservers? Seems to me you're using the router's built-in DNS and it self-reports its own IP address. This is how Netgear wo

Do these lookups ever hit public nameservers? Seems to me you're using the router's built-in DNS and it self-reports its own IP address. This is how Netgear works. routerlogin.com gets resolved locally to the IP of my router. It would be foolish to have it resolved by something on the internet as router setup often involves doing things when the internet isn't working. That said, its foolish to not have those domains in your back-pocket, but I imagine budget router OEMs are run like shitshows in general and that's probably the least of your problems. Often they just rebadge a reference router made by $no_name_company, no better than an alibaba reseller. I've always considered these cheapo routers to be a sort of bargain with the devil, sure they're cheap and less hassle than setting up pfsense, but you know you're getting a substandard product with no real support and probably more than a couple significant security risks.