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R7960P firmware not upgrading
I have attempted multiple times to upgrade my current firmware, V1.4.1.44_1.3.5, to V1.4.1.50_1.3.10 and it fails. I have tried letting the router update itself and also downloading upgrade zip file ...
FYI for any interested. Got the notice on the new firmware (.84) version.
Tried update from GUI - hung on updating the user iterface
Manually downloaded to desktop and sucessfully flashed, rebooted on its own.
However a problem with DNS now exists.
Whenever a local machine with DNS set to router needs to revalidate the cache. It first timesout and then most often finds the address within 1 sec (occasionally I need to reload) does not matter which browser, (as long as the browser doesnt have its own dns setting) or local machine, or even which DNS service I specifiy to the router, same behavior.
However, If I bypass the router DNS directlly by specifying it at the machine (or in the case of Firefox, directly within the browser) it works great.
I know that this is the behavior because I montiored the traffic with Fiddler.
Yes, I of course rebooted the browser, no difference. Also tried both wired and wireless conenctions from same machine alternately, same effect.
Anyone else see this behavior with V .84?
I saw the update the day it came out. I didn’t want to be the Guinea pig🤣. I guess I made the correct decision.
Have you tried to go back to .68? Does it fix the dna issue?
Have you tried to go back to .68? Does it fix the dna issue?
No, I did not try to role back to the .68 version. My thoughts are that since the update was for security purposes, I would rather have it in place. Instead, I just configured the local machines to point to cloudflare as the dns server. Since there are only 4, it was not that big an issue.
Interestingly enough, my Ipad on the same network seems to work ok with the router. Not sure why?