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Umlautica
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May 03, 2017

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...