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NightHawk MK63 generating a lot of traffic
Hi there, I've noticed in the logs of my firewall, that both MR60 and MS60 are generating a huge amount of traffic to netgear.com domain. This doesn't affect the bandwidth available as this is I...
Chilli71 wrote:
That triggered my curiosity because when disabling 'get IP via DHCP' for the internet connection (with the latest hotfix version) the option get DNS from provider didn't work but always switch to static DNS.
The Intern/WAN Interface can either be configured by DHCP or statically (leaving the special PPP case away for simplicity - like DHCP, different protocol) for it's IP address, default gateway, subnet, DNS server(s).
Only with DHCP, the option "get DNS from provider" does make sense. Without a DHCP client (read a static interface config), there is no way to magically get the DNS (we talk about one to three IP addresses where DNS services are available here) from the provider.
Chilli71 wrote:
Would disabling 'get IP via DHCP' and static DNS be a work around?
Scratch this idea. The heavy DNS queries came from the satellites, and happen under any condition. The hotfix referred already is supposed to address this problem.
After having a look on firewall logs, seems that I can confirm that issue is now resolved. ICMP requests have decreased dramatically.
Still some of them but I assume this is a normal behaviour.
Nevertheless, the time to get this fix is unacceptable...