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  1. Sky

    Simple beginner questions about using SSH with Merlin

    Adding to @MamyPoko's post, more info from Microsoft for using OpenSSH can be found here.
  2. Sky

    Security Issue AC87

    I caught this bit of data in my log. The ip's trace to known bad actors, but this is a new twist tapping high ports, etc. I've seen the bot scans for PPTP b ut this is different than normal, perhaps OpenVPN scans? I don't know, can someone take a look at this? I can send the log in full if...
  3. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    o_O Ah, I see. Oh, phooey! Well if it's not asuscomm.com, that leaves me with my setup which worked but intermittently failed with increasing frequency until I changed DDNS providers and hardware and software (hmm, bunch of changes all at once, that never muddies the water) at which point it...
  4. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    Thank you for the clarification — yes. However, as fun as all of this is I do think we've gotten just a bit off track here. That is unless the point is that using isitdownorjust.me to verify up/down status is an invalid test if one doesn't use their myname.asuscomm.com v just asuscomm.com. If...
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    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    In this case I am using: FQDN: WWW.myname.com PQDN: yourname.myname.com which assumes asuscomm.com does not allow myname.asuscomm.com to exist on root. Certainly, yourname.myname.com can be an FQDN if it reaches up to the root, but my assumption is that only asuscomm.com can reach the...
  6. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    Maybe I'm wrong here (I suspect someone will tell me ;)), but in order for the PQDN (partially qualified domain name, e.g., mydomain.asuscomm.com) to be in any way functional, the FQDN (fully qualified domain name, e.g., www.asuscomm.com) would have to at least have a landing page or some...
  7. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    Very similar to what I have been experiencing for some time, except it usually shows as asuscomm.com DOWN at isitdownorjust.me and whether or not it comes back up is a coin toss at best. To me this speaks of benign neglect at best and outright unannounced abandonment at worst. Perhaps I'm...
  8. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    Everyone: Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner (like September 16!). There was an on-going emergency I had to attend to and it has just resolved—I hope. It's only updating as often as the OEM FW called for it to, which I am thinking is dependent on whether or not it successfully confirms the...
  9. Sky

    Review New In the Charts: ASUS RT-AX58U

    The COVID period since Fall 2020 is anomalous. Judging any company strictly by that measure should be looked at as invalid unless it is a start-up that began life during the still-ongoing COVID period. That said, I too am a long-standing Dell desktop/laptop customer and have also been a...
  10. Sky

    Has Asus abandoned asuscomm.com DDNS

    Over the last year or more I have noticed asuscomm.com is increasingly down and not functioning. This has happened so often and so long that is has passed any imagined "tipping point" and has now become the rule, rather than the exception. On any given day at any given time it has become...
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    • asuscomm.com ddns
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: ASUS Wi-Fi
  11. Sky

    Solved Help: ovpn activated w/out admin input, bad actor ip inside, functioning ping

    Got it. Thanks!
  12. Sky

    Solved Help: ovpn activated w/out admin input, bad actor ip inside, functioning ping

    Thanks @Tech9. So you can do it in OpenVPN on the router, but not for PPTP. I wonder why? Too bad, really — it might save all those pesky script-fishing log entries!
  13. Sky

    Solved Help: ovpn activated w/out admin input, bad actor ip inside, functioning ping

    I've been preferring the Asus VPN for ease of administration as the person most likely to follow me into this role is even less adept than I am — if that's even possible — and I got a lot of push-back over trying to implement ovpn, but in the Asus both use common ports. I might try running the...
  14. Sky

    Solved Help: ovpn activated w/out admin input, bad actor ip inside, functioning ping

    Thanks Colin! What really had me going was having ovpn operational at all, which I did not recall doing. The only thing I can come up with is "distracted administrating". Thanks for the links. I meant to mention AbuseIPDB but my original post was too long and it disappeared in the edit. The...
  15. Sky

    Solved Help: ovpn activated w/out admin input, bad actor ip inside, functioning ping

    Hi, Gang! Sky here. Our VPN went offline last week. At the same time, Is it down, or just me was and continued reporting asuscomm.com down. I had attributed it to the wildfires in the wider area impeding switches, etc., etc. By down I mean users were unable to login in just timing out or being...
  16. Sky

    HELP: VPN client can't connect to RT-AC87R after FW update

    The VPN client on my beloved but aged Toshiba laptop has stopped working, but the clients on other laptops and desktops continue working well. The Toshiba VPN client has worked for years now without any problems and no changes were made to the client nor host VPN settings. The Toshiba and the...
  17. Sky

    Tutorial [Solved] Setup for Bi-directional VPN with WRT-based Routers (e.g. ASUS)

    Assuming you don't mind releasing control of your VPN to a third party provider, and if you desire the higher-end options, you don't mind paying for it Ananda looks interesting. Sky
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    • Post #12
    • Forum: VPN
  18. Sky

    Solved RT-AC87U login CAPTCHA

    This turned out to be Firefox browser setting issue. Fixing that fixed this.
  19. Sky

    Solved I can't login to my new Syno with AiCloud — use DS File

    drabisan: I've got this much working: Connect iPhone to the LAN, go to the DS file app > navigate to the desired folder > click the elipsis (…) at the upper right in the title bar of the app to expose the menu > choose "Upload" > "From albums" > pick photos and click "Add" at upper right. This...
  20. Sky

    Solved ASUS RT-AC87 System log missing days (Synology issue?)

    RESOLVED Well, I managed to figure this one out. o_O Sure enough, the Syno has a *known issue* of intermittently messing up the Asus when it writes commands to it to use UPnP. The fix was to return to disabling UPnP and open a port on the router with due security, etc. Sky
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