4 posts tagged Router
Right. With the pandemic and all none of us are going to travel much but still...
About a year ago I purchased myself an OpenWRT router to use on the plane and in hotels.
And so far I really like both the device and the Hong Kong based brand (launching new and updated products, and releasing relatively regular updates for older products). Pick a device that fits your needs (USB powered? LTE? Small form factor?).
Noticed that NextDNS was reporting old hostnames in the logs. For example old device names (devices that changed hostnames), devices that were definitely no longer on the network, or IPs that were matched to the wrong hostnames.
The culprit is how EdgeOS deals with its hosts file. Basically it just keeps all the old hosts added and just adds a new line at the end of the file.
Realised I haven't updated this in a long while (life happened).
Couple of weeks ago I started to play with NextDNS -- and I really recommend anyone that's something privacy minded and cares about the stuff happening on their network.
I've set up several configs (home, parents, FlatTurtle TurtleBox (the NUCs controlling the screens)) and Servers. Once it's out of beta and better supported on Unifi and Ubiquiti hardware I might deploy it to our public WiFi (well, most access points don't look like that -- but you get the point) networks too.
I’ve had an issue for a while, being unable to access certain websites such as https://fon.com, but also certain parts of the Apple, Fortis and Microsoft site, while other (https) websites worked fine.
Running Wireshark I found that only about 5ish packets got transferred, and all other data to that website abruptly stopped.
I’m using ADSL (EDPnet), which has an MTU of 1492, however, I was able to access all websites from the router (using lynx, for example), but not from any other PC within the network.
