New Fios Home Router G3100 and DNS

Hi,

I have the new G3100 FIOS Home Router which I got a couple of days ago. The performance is not too different from the old Quantum, but I am having a couple of peculiar issues:

1. When trying to change the domain name (Advanced/System Settings/Local Domain) from the default of myfiosgateway.com, I cannot type any alpha characters. I can type digits, but no alpha characters are accepted, even though the box did contain myfiosgateway.com. The same thing is true for the host name, which is set by default to g3100.

2. Since the default domain is set to myfiosgateway.com and since it is handed out by the DHCP server to all clients, whenever I try to resolve a host on the network that does not exist, it automatically resolves to an IP address outside the network. The address is different from one day to the other -- today it is 92.242.140.21. How can this behaviour be changed?

Thanks in advance.

Zuhair.

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zuhairmahd

Thank you for sharing. This was exactly what I was looking for.

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dslr595148

#1 For that IP Address https://forums.verizon.com/t5/Fios-Internet/FIOS-DNS-Hack-Directed-to-unallocated-barefruit-co-uk92-242-140/td-p/723697

#2 While we get that you have FIOS Internet, do you also have FIOS TV?

zuhairmahd

I thought the domain redirect had to do with Verizon's Search Assist feature -- thanks for the confirmation.

Now if I could only figure out how to change the local domain?

Thanks,

Zuhair.

WakkoWarner

There's bad jQuery in the page that's removing every character that's not a number as you type it. I had both the offending code and some code you could use the developer console to run to force the value of the input field to be the domain you want to use in a previous response, but the response was marked as spam.

So, this time, I'll just say that you need to construct jQuery code to change the value of the #router_domain field to contain your domain, and then submit the form.

WakkoWarner

Huh. Whenever I try to include the jQuery code in a reply, it's removed, so let me DESCRIBE it.

A dollar sign, followed by an opening parenthesis, a single quote, a hash mark, the string router_domain, then a closing single quote and a closing parenthesis. Then there's a period, the method name val , an opening parenthesis, a single quote, the text of your domain name, and then a closing single quote, a closing parenthesis, and a semicolon.