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How do you have a static IP, but dynamic DNS? When static IP is selected, you cannot change the DNS option. I just started having problems where my DNS would fail until I re-appliled the curre...
capGrundy wrote:I'm going to see how C.i works out with the restarts. A similar fix helped me with a proxy hang on my server.
If they persist, I appreciate the suggestion. Since I was unwilling to pay for product support beyond the short warranty period, I'm not sure they would be willing to help me.
Good luck. This issue coupled with faulty firmware has finally gotten the NG moderators here involved. Hopefully things will settle down for you and others soon.
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I haven't gotten too far into the weed on tracking it. It just started on 2/13 I think. Since I need to manually Apply the same page to kick it (reboot takes a lunar cycle), I don't think it was happening before. Also, it seems to happen almost every day since then--with all forms of changes to DNS order, tweaks like NTP changes, ect, after each--so I feel like it's something systemic.
The funny part is I can't remember when I did the update, but it wasn't last week as far as I know. Still, that was the only change I made recently, so maybe it's a creeping issue. Something like a file/buffer overflow that has taken a while to fill.
As I mentioned, I did the manual DNSmasq and added a cron to do so nightly, but only since this morning, so I won't know for a while if that helped.So the good news for a bad problem is either you're not crazy..or not crazy alone at least.
Just happened again, not even a few hours later, so feels worse.
capGrundy wrote:Just happened again, not even a few hours later, so feels worse.
You setup the cron job to restart Dnsmasq ever so often? I assume that will/would work when that schedule hits. Mine router was haveing an issue more then once a day but 12-23 hours or so between issues. The cron job would need to run very often to shorten the outage times.
Hi, All,
Engineering has determined that the issue is caused by the Traffic Meter. The quick workaround is to disable the traffic meter.
To disable traffic meter:
Access orbilogin.com > go to ADVANCED Tab > Advanced Setup > Traffic Meter and uncheck Traffic MeterEngineers are working on a firmware fix to be released.
Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
