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Orbi DNS and DHCP and NTP Broken - Short Term Fix Options
There is a very active thread on Reddit regarding Orbi's that stopped being able to resolve DNS after the Daylight Savings Time change: https://www.reddit.com/r/orbi/comments/m5l3vk/orbi_dropping_dn...
Thanks for the great summary of options. I am one of the Orbi owners who experienced this crazy situation. Solid 24 hours of hell, with Orbi constantly losing DNS capability and doing a reboot (over and over again). Then, as suddenly as it appeared, the problem disappeared. I will save this post in my "Orbi Tidbits" collection for use at the next Daylight Saving Time change.
The bigger mystery (to me) is how bizarre issues (such as this one) affect only some Orbi's and not all Orbi's. If every Orbi lost DNS for 24 hours every March, Netgear would have someone working on it.
CrimpOn wrote:Thanks for the great summary of options. I am one of the Orbi owners who experienced this crazy situation. Solid 24 hours of hell, with Orbi constantly losing DNS capability and doing a reboot (over and over again). Then, as suddenly as it appeared, the problem disappeared. I will save this post in my "Orbi Tidbits" collection for use at the next Daylight Saving Time change.
The bigger mystery (to me) is how bizarre issues (such as this one) affect only some Orbi's and not all Orbi's. If every Orbi lost DNS for 24 hours every March, Netgear would have someone working on it.
this has to be tied a recent change in the firmware for I have NOT had this problem
Also to add to the list a Factory reset was another solution.
Others reported already having v104 install and working for a while before this started. I presume this isn't a FW issue. All the past 24-48 hours seems to be mostly related the time change for what ever reasons why. Makes me wonder if it's something having to do with NG cloud services. We saw something similar last year about this time on Orbi AX. People were having problems with there systems. Turned out it was something on NG side of the fence that NG corrected. Was not FW related. Possible same thing here on Orbi AC.
These systems are somehow tied to NG services and are not fully automomous i believe. :smileyfrustrated:
