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Outbound traffic to Amazon space
Hello, I am wondering why my Orbi AC2200 unit (running latest firmware as of 2/23/2020, RBR20) is constantly making outbound connections to the Amazon space (52.0.0.0/11) over SSL/443. The home ...
A little more info here: www.netgear.com is being used as Internet good/disconnected status in the Orbi GUI, Basic -> Home. Allowing outbound ping to a FQDN object should be ok.
If you have a pi-hole, you can blacklist advisor.ngxcld.com - in this case, there will be no outbound traffic.
1qwerty1 wrote:A little more info here: www.netgear.com is being used as Internet good/disconnected status in the Orbi GUI, Basic -> Home. Allowing outbound ping to a FQDN object should be ok.
This would make for an interesting experiment. Block all outbound traffic originating from the Orbi (not "passing through") and see what the Home Page status display says. I have always wondered why the Home Page initially says, "Waiting" under Internet, and then changes to "Good". Silly me, I thought, "Don't you KNOW the internet connection is good already?" Maybe it has to connect, "just in case" before putting up a display.
Hi CrimpOn,
I actually did the exact thing you are asking - I had all oubound connections blocked for my Orbi device.The failed pings caused the GUI Home page to show that the Internet was down. In reality the Internet was up. I allowed the pings outbound anyway to keep the home page happy. The www.netgear.com site gets pinged once every 5 minutes.
My other pi-hole blacklisted sites are:
readycloud.netgear.com
readyshare.netgear.com
presence.ngxcld.com
registration.ngxcld.comMy box is also making outbound FTP connections every hour at hr:02. I will capture this traffic to determine the FQDN it is using.
