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Nighthawk MR60 spying on my Internet usage
I installed a new Nighthawk AX1800 WiFi 6 Mesh System only to find that it is now the top user of DNS in my network and it's looking up the hostname of every IP any of my devices visit on the interne...
I did the math, just based on the screenshots that I shared. The MR60 is doing just over 10,000 DNS queries a day.
Shouldn't be doing more than a small handful of queries a day to check for firmware updates (like once a day at most).
All those other lookups shouldn't be happening. There should be a straightforward option to turn off whatever it's doing.
That amount of traffic is strange. The only feature that will do a ton of requests that I know of under normal circumstances, is the Netgear Armor function where it will do a ton of stuff in the background when active, especially if it is doing a vulnerability scan.
