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

[Verdi R-D <verdi () azend org>]

I experienced this as well dealing with some soho "routers" such as the
RT-AC1200. I imagine this configuration is something in-common with a lot
of their offerings. The issue was resolved by making sure the primary DHCP
server and the Asus device both pointed to the same DNS server.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 2:33 PM Tony Wicks <tony () wicks co nz> wrote:

> 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.
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> *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
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> Going through (long) Asus support channel, they first agreed that this was
> intentional to make 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.