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DNS Rebinding & Permitting a private domain
I have some orbi 850's i need to change the DNS rebinding to allow a domain. Support is zero as its out of warrenty. I cannot find any settings about DNS rebinding protection. Help please. Someo...
There are settings to specify which DNS servers the Orbi will use to resolve URLs into IP addresses.
There are no setting specifically addressing how the Orbi handles malicious attempts at "DNS Rebinding"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_rebinding
Perhaps more detail about the problem will help. What, specifically, is the goal?
For example, if the goal is to set up a local domain so that devices on the LAN can be referred to by URL rather than IP address, the Orbi DNS software does not provide for this. I use a Pi-hole server to perform this function to access the web server on my printer.
i.e. rather than http://192.168.1.4, I can browse to http://printer.local
Bascically the dns rebinding protection is killing a feature of plex. The solution for almost ever other ap / router is to allow one domain in rebinding settings. Which you have now confirmed that NG dont have. So £1000 of mesh hardware is rendered obsolute due to a setting not being implimented.
Guess lesson learnt, dont buy NG again.
Oh, geez. I have not run across that Plex feature problem yet. Can you point me to a reference on the issue?
I do realize your post is from two months ago, hoping you still might have an interest in this issue from the OP. What the OP is referring to is utilizing a Plex server on your private network to download/transfer content from the Plex server to a mobile device, like an iPad that is also on the same private network.
Getting really frustrating with the "download" function not working very well...
I have also been experiencing this same issue and am looking to resolve it. What I find pretty interesting is I have an identical setup, or very close, to the same setup OP is running:
Orbi Mesh with version V2.7.4.24
CenturyLink Zyxel C3000Z (VDSL "Slow" Internet running firmware CZD005-4.16.011.0)
Per that reddit thread I've linked, explains in detail what those have presumably done to fix the issue. I have change my Orbi DNS to the google addresses for now but I'm still getting the content transfer failures as though nothing was resolved. Seems it is possible the DNS Rebind Protection might be key here but admittedly, I'm not entirely familiar with DNS Rebind Protection and if it effectively isn't in play if I manually set my DNS specifically to something like google.