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RBR760 lost settings, now won't allow recreation
Apologies for the vague title... For the past few days connectivity for several devices has been unstable so I decided to reboot the Orbi via the mobile app. After rebooting, the app detected the Or...
iyang wrote:
What port forwarding rules do you setup ?
Typically I test by forwarding port 80 to a Pi-hole server (has a web management interface).
and port 21 to a Windows FTP server.
I open them only to test and then close them quickly. Within minutes there are robots trying to connect to them, which fills up the Orbi log and annoys me. Just tried again.
- Made a typo (brain freeze) when creating custom rule and typed 30 instead of 80. Rule created with no error message.
Of course, there is no server on port 30, so no Loopback connect. - Edited the rule to change it to port 80 (http) and got that stupid error message. But... the port is actually open.
- Tried again with port 30 - no error.
- Edited it back to port 80 - error message.
All I can conclude is that there is a bug in the code that pops up an error message and then opens the port anyway.