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insomniak
Jun 14, 2018Guide
DOS ATTACK and DNS Failure Internet Loss
I recently purchased the XR500 Router and overall everything is running good. However over the past few days i've noticed that the internet has been cutting out once in a while for minutes at a time. Sometimes up to 10 minutes. I checked the logs an noticed an alarming number of "DOS ATTACK: ACK Scan" scanning mainly ports 443 and 80. I figured that the router is doing its job by blocking these scans.
Of the latest scans, i tracked the IP's to a majority of them coming from Amazon and LiquidWeb (never heard).
I'm not 100% if these "Attacks" are what is effecting my connection but when all is running fine and i check the logs, i don't see any of the attacks.
I searched around and found that some people had turned of UPNP and so i followed suite during one of these "attacks" when my internet was down and low and behold, everything was working just fine.
So now i'm not sure as to whether it was these "attacks" that were crippling my internet or if UPNP was at fault. Any insight? I actually returned the Orbi and purchased this router with an EX8000 extender as a replacement because of this vary same issue so i'm pretty bummed i'm still running into this.
I've attached the logs for reference.
UDPATE: After trying submit this post, encountered another outage so I don’t even think it’s UPNP related now. After refreshing the logs, I’ve attached them here also and noted that there was one that states “Dynamic DNS host name registration failure”. Could this possibly have anything to do with it?
11 Replies
- KillhippieProdigy
Can I ask what foirmware you are using? Personally I have not had this issues, but have seen a few people with DNS issues recently, I would say tyry a different DNS server, like Googles 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to see if that helps. It may be your ISP's DNS casuing issues so thats worth a try.
Oops, i gave the wrong firmware before. I actually am on V2.2.1.10. I'm trying out Fraser's provided firmware now so we'll see how that goes.
- Netduma-FraserNetDuma PartnerHi insomniak, I have sent you a PM with a firmware that may potentially fix your issue.
I'm currently using firmware V1.0.0.325.
I'm definitely a gamer and my two sons are also gamers so that was the main reason to try this router out after reading the great reviews of NetDuma OS.
I had been using Google's DNS but am now trying out Quad9 to see if that makes any difference. I also have DDNS with No-IP.com activated if that makes any difference too.
Thank you Fraser for the firmware and i'll give it a try and report back with an update.