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RE: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets


From: "Tony Wicks" <tony () wicks co nz>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:31:10 +1300

I had a similar discussion with another vendor recently while testing their mesh wireless systems. This vendor’s units 
are actually re-writing dhcp requests that clients make to point DNS to the primary mesh unit. This even happened when 
the mesh platform was in pure bridge mode (as opposed to router mode). The vendor said this was to make sure their app 
worked reliably. I’d say this sort of behaviour has quietly become common in the one app to rule it all world.

 

 

 

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+tony=wicks.co.nz () nanog org> On Behalf Of Anurag Bhatia
Sent: Thursday, 5 November 2020 7:03 am
To: NANOG Mailing List <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

 

Hello

 

 

An update on this issue: 

 

Going through (long) Asus support channel, they first agreed that this was intentional to make router.asus.com 
<http://router.asus.com>  work but did take my request to make that optional. They have issued me a test firmware which 
so far seems to be working perfectly with no-rewriting rules. Hoping that it doesn't bring any side effects and they 
eventually put it in their public release after testing. 

 

 

 


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