AX88u after 25hrs of stable B5 use:
Per-IP (XBox in this case)
parental control timers are now working again (broken in B4b).
IPv6 is rock stable again (broken in B4b)
Built in
DDNS appears to have an issue with deciding when to send updates:
DDNS is set to:
Use
WWW.DNSOMATIC.COM
dns name: fredsIP.ddns.somewhere
No wildcard support.
Force update interval: 1
WAP IP and hostname verification: yes
Check every 30 minutes
dnsomatic emails me the responses from the ddns provider, I see very odd timing patterns. These do not start every 30mins. There are big gaps between each sequence, anywhere between 15-45 mins, but no obvious pattern to the timing of them.
In each sequence there are always at least two email responses 7-8 minutes apart, the first with a blank response and the second confirming a change to a new IP I'll call "X"
This "X" is always the same IP. It matches the external IP for the system.
Sometimes I will see 4 of these emails 7-8 minutes apart in a blank-content/changed IP/blank-content/changed IP sequence. Mostly its just a pair of emails.
I was expecting to see one DDNS email per day, unless the router was re-booted. My ISP (BT) likes to assign new IPs most times the router reboots.
BTW the router's uptime is around 25hrs now and I've had a few dozen DDNS update emails in that time.
Internal DNS is not reporting the DDNS address for the local system.
If I set my phone to use WiFi and ping "fredsIP.ddns.somewhere" it reports request timeouts.
If I set my phone to use mobile data and repeat the ping it gets the correct current DDNS-derived IP and works properly.
I have set the DNS servers in DHCP to point to the Google servers and to include the local routers IP in addition to the google servers.
I wonder; could this DNS issue have some bearing on the erratic and unwanted DDNS registration retries?
WiFi Radar: Site Survey didn't seem to be working, until I figured out I needed to "Start Data Collection" under the Configure tab.
Should there be any default WiFi Radar information available without requiring a manual start/stop effort?