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dnsmasq failure
I was running V2.5.1.16 and have been for 6+ months no issue. The other night the internet went down and I logged into the Orbi via web and verified the provider issue. While there I noticed the up...
based on same thread and update from reddit;
i upgraded again to 2.6.2.104. Within 4 hours I had two more DNS outages. Same as before, DNS lookups to orbi router timing out. Log into router via telnet, reload the config (I'm not sure if dnsmasq was dead, just started documenting pid after last outage) and it started working again. On the 3rd outage I turned DST off (Advanced->administration->NTP->uncheck DST). I reloaded dnsmasq again (no reboots) and so far I've been good for 4 hours. Hopefully this fixes the issue. 1 hour off doesn't matter too much to me.
Based on this Reddit thread, I disabled the traffic meter feature. So far, no loss of dns functionality after 10 hours of uptime. Which is very encouraging -- I had been having to reset dnsmasq every few hours.
https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/m5l3vk/orbi_dropping_dns/
based on same thread and update from reddit;
i upgraded again to 2.6.2.104. Within 4 hours I had two more DNS outages. Same as before, DNS lookups to orbi router timing out. Log into router via telnet, reload the config (I'm not sure if dnsmasq was dead, just started documenting pid after last outage) and it started working again. On the 3rd outage I turned DST off (Advanced->administration->NTP->uncheck DST). I reloaded dnsmasq again (no reboots) and so far I've been good for 4 hours. Hopefully this fixes the issue. 1 hour off doesn't matter too much to me.
