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New - R7900P/R7960P/R8000P Firmware Version 1.4.3.88 Released
Security Fixes: 04/13/2022
Fixes security vulnerabilities.
For more information about security vulnerabilities, visit https://www.netgear.com/about/security
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Did you factory reset the router and setup from scratch after v.88 was loaded?
One thing to try is to enable IPv6 feature on v.88 and see if the DNS issue continue to still appear or not. Others have mentioned that this helps. NG is aware of the DNS issues.
Synthdan wrote:
Starting with R7900P Firmware Version 1.4.2.84, released in 2021, the R7900P router developed a serious flaw where web browsers would fail to load pages the first time they were accessed. This problem occurred in Chrome, Edge, and every other browser, and users were forced to downgrade to Firmware 1.4.1.68 in order to continue to use their router. This is all documented in this forum post from 2021:
Recently, on April 12th, 2022, a new firmware update, 1.4.3.88, was released. My router automatically installed this update, losing all of my settings in the process. Unfortunately the new firmware has the exact same website issue, so I've once again had to revert to 1.4.2.84.
Actually, it's worse than that. There is a serious error in the old 1.4.2.84 version. If you disable the "Router Auto Firmware Update" option and hit apply, the router's interface software crashes, and the router has to be rebooted. The setting is not saved. This is why my router auto-updated to the latest firmware even though this was not ideal.
So, I had to install the latest firmware, configure it to not auto-update, then revert to the previous firmware, in order to get the router to not break itself by installing the unusable new updates.
Netgear, are you going to fix your firmware problem with the R7900P? This was an expensive router and I'm hopeful that you will fix this serious firmware flaw. The 1.4.2.84 firmware version continues to work perfectly, but the broken updates say they have "security fixes" and I would like my system to be as secure as possible.
Thank you,
Dan
<< Did you factory reset the router and setup from scratch after v.88 was loaded? >>
Yes, I did. Given that I expected Netgear to not release a second firmware update with the same problem, I did a factory reset and started over from scratch. After rebuilding all of my wifi settings from scratch, I tried going to various web pages and immediately experienced the exact same DNS issues. Then I reverted my firmware back to the previous working version.
<< One thing to try is to enable IPv6 feature on v.88 and see if the DNS issue continue to still appear or not. Others have mentioned that this helps. NG is aware of the DNS issues. >>
No, I haven't tried that. Others on this thread have said they did try that and it didn't work. I suppose I can take some time to try the firmware upgrade again and see for myself.
Thanks,
Dan
Ok, for me, after I turned on IPv6 (auto-detect) it went away on the latest firmware, also put DNS on auto have fixed the DNS errors. Occasionally I'll get conn_reset on Chrome but only for a split second. Hate that I have to put specific settings for the firmware to fix. I avoided IPv6 because I was having problems with it on another firmware ironically enough (IPv6 caused my router to reboot randomly on the older firmware).
Ok, when you get time. I'll be checking my R7960P here soon.
Synthdan wrote:
<< Did you factory reset the router and setup from scratch after v.88 was loaded? >>
Yes, I did. Given that I expected Netgear to not release a second firmware update with the same problem, I did a factory reset and started over from scratch. After rebuilding all of my wifi settings from scratch, I tried going to various web pages and immediately experienced the exact same DNS issues. Then I reverted my firmware back to the previous working version.
<< One thing to try is to enable IPv6 feature on v.88 and see if the DNS issue continue to still appear or not. Others have mentioned that this helps. NG is aware of the DNS issues. >>
No, I haven't tried that. Others on this thread have said they did try that and it didn't work. I suppose I can take some time to try the firmware upgrade again and see for myself.
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks for letting us know. Hoping IPv6 will work for you until NG finally gets this all fixed. We are keeping them on this.
What model router do you have?
jnguyen wrote:
Ok, for me, after I turned on IPv6 (auto-detect) it went away on the latest firmware, also put DNS on auto have fixed the DNS errors. Occasionally I'll get conn_reset on Chrome but only for a split second. Hate that I have to put specific settings for the firmware to fix. I avoided IPv6 because I was having problems with it on another firmware ironically enough (IPv6 caused my router to reboot randomly on the older firmware).
- The R8000P. But yeah, only thing I changed was IPv6 to on and DNS to ISP provided on