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Deco M4 connects to six different sites every minute

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Henk_L.

2022-10-28 11:31:28 - last edited 2022-10-28 17:33:59

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Deco M4 connects to six different sites every minute

2022-10-28 11:31:28 - last edited 2022-10-28 17:33:59

Model: Deco M4

Hardware Version: V4

Firmware Version: 1.0.3 Build 20220426 Rel. 32976

When I follow the network traffic on my home network I see that the main Deco is contacting every minute:

reddit com

google com

live com

amazon com

bing com

a root-servers

When I block these sites for the Deco, everything just works. Does anyone know why Deco keeps contacting these six sites?

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David-TP

2022-11-01 06:42:15 - last edited 2022-11-01 06:59:03

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Re:Deco M4 connects to six different sites every minute

2022-11-01 06:42:15 - last edited 2022-11-01 06:59:03

@Henk_L.

Hi, these websites are used to check network connectivity and once the online internet checking passes, the LED on Deco could remain green/white. It does not actually access or communicate with these sites and it just tries to resolve these domains to check whether the DNS server returns with the correct IP address.

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Re:Deco M4 connects to six different sites every minute

2022-11-01 11:00:53

Hi David, That is very strange behaviour, the Deco is in AP mode so why should this be checked and so often? In my network a raspberry-pi handles the DNS requests, and there I blocked the sites in question for the main Deco. Yet everything continues to work, so the test has no purpose at all, no error messages in the Deco app.

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