Internal Server Error when hostname used

CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 30, 2023
Thanks for providing the recording showing the DNS resolution.

Version V4.6.14.3 appears to have been out since 12/1/2022 (almost nine months). Unless this system was just recently updated, the firmware seems unlikely to be the cause of the change in behavior.

My Orbi requires authentication. (user, password) Do you have those parameters in a configuration file, rather than on the command line? It appears that more parameters are required to get the output in your post. All I get is this:

C:\Users\Dick>wget.exe 192.168.1.1 --user=admin --password=xxxxxxxxx --2023-08-30 16:13:45-- http://192.168.1.1/ Connecting to 192.168.1.1:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Authentication selected: Basic realm="NETGEAR Orbi" Connecting to 192.168.1.1:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 531 [text/html] Saving to: 'index.html' index.html 100%[=================================================>] 531 --.-KB/s in 0s 2023-08-30 16:13:46 (7.90 MB/s) - 'index.html' saved [531/531]

One of the 'missing features' in Orbi is the ability to resolve local DNS entries, so I am unable to duplicate the entire situation. (Also testing on an RBR50 in router mode) It is interesting to note that on my Windows computer, wget connects to the IPv6 address of the web site when Orbi resolves http://orbilogin.net :

C:\Users\Dick>wget.exe http://orbilogin.net --user=admin --password=xxxxxxxxxx --2023-08-30 16:25:52-- http://orbilogin.net/ Resolving orbilogin.net (orbilogin.net)... 2603:8000:403:bd7c:a204:60ff:fe1c:239, 192.168.1.1 Connecting to orbilogin.net (orbilogin.net)|2603:8000:403:bd7c:a204:60ff:fe1c:239|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized Authentication selected: Basic realm="NETGEAR Orbi" Connecting to orbilogin.net (orbilogin.net)|2603:8000:403:bd7c:a204:60ff:fe1c:239|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 531 [text/html] Saving to: 'index.html.1' index.html.1 100%[=================================================>] 531 --.-KB/s in 0s 2023-08-30 16:25:52 (5.56 MB/s) - 'index.html.1' saved [531/531]
- linutic
  Aspirant
  Aug 31, 2023
  We get different results, but there are a couple things different here.
  --- router mode vs AP mode.
  --- Windows wget vs ubuntu wget.
  
  I just looked at the index.html received by my ubuntu wget. It's mostly a pile of javascript that (at least sometimes) redirects the page from the implicit index.html to start.html. wget knows nothing about javascript, so fat dumb and happy, it just stores the javascript in index.html.
  
  If I attempt to view the some_path/index.html file with chrome, I get a message saying my file could not be accessed. What?? However the URL line now shows that chrome has been redirected to somepath/start.html. That's the file it can't access. So apparently the javascript IS redirecting to start.html. Okay, so I tried manually following the redirect.
  
  % wget 192.168.49.4/start.html
  --2023-08-30 21:24:59-- http://192.168.49.4/start.html
  Connecting to 192.168.49.4:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
  Username/Password Authentication Failed.
  
  Yup, now I get an authentication failure, just as you do. BUT that doesn't help understand the root problem because:
  
  % wget mesh/start.html
  --2023-08-30 21:29:41-- http://mesh/start.html
  Resolving mesh (mesh)... 192.168.49.4
  Connecting to mesh (mesh)|192.168.49.4|:80... connected.
  HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
  2023-08-30 21:29:41 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.
  
  So thanks for the great detective work, BUT, we are still on the wrong track.
  - linutic
    Aspirant
    Aug 31, 2023
    You also mentioned that the firmware version is about 8 months old. Well it is sure possible I haven't tried accessing it by name for 8 months, or I did, and when it didn't work put in the IP Address and forgot about it. That day I might have been working on something else, and didn't want to do the context switch.
    
    But I am absolutely sure it used to work.
    
    I love my Orbi also.

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