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WAX610 - blank admin page
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with a WAX610? It's my first Netgear WiFi product so I'm not sure if this is how they are meant to work or not. I added the MAC to my DHCP server and boo...
Malvineous wrote:
But if I access it via its FQDN (as in http://hostname.mydomain.example) then the admin page is blank.
Is this expected behaviour? Is everyone just using raw IPs instead of DNS?
Reads like you have not configured the FQDN on the LAN settings.
Crux is that they are comparing the FQDN with the referrer URL, kid of a security (or security by obscurity) feature, without any warning as you experience. Yes, I don't get warm with this ****, as it's different from any other business vendor product implementation.
Ok, I made a little progress. It turns out if I access the AP via its IP address (as in https://1.2.3.4) then I get the admin page working. But if I access it via its FQDN (as in http://hostname.mydomain.example) then the admin page is blank.
Is this expected behaviour? Is everyone just using raw IPs instead of DNS?
Malvineous wrote:
But if I access it via its FQDN (as in http://hostname.mydomain.example) then the admin page is blank.
Is this expected behaviour? Is everyone just using raw IPs instead of DNS?
Reads like you have not configured the FQDN on the LAN settings.
Crux is that they are comparing the FQDN with the referrer URL, kid of a security (or security by obscurity) feature, without any warning as you experience. Yes, I don't get warm with this ****, as it's different from any other business vendor product implementation.
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