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Orbi router pings netgear.com every ~6 seconds
I have no clue why this is necessary but it's jamming up my DNS logs in PiHole since it results in some 14k netgear.com lookups a day. Maybe it's being used as a connectivity test? I blocked the...
I am seeing the same behavior on my Orbi system. Besides the 2.8MB/day for the pings, there is also about 13MB/day being generated for the DNS queries that the Orbi does every time it pings www.netgear.com. I have a support case open with Netgear saying that the router should be caching the DNS response for www.netgear.com, and also asking for the ability to turn off the "pinging" altogether.