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Haha, yeah I hear that. Windows at work; Mac/Linux at home…

Why would I pay for a static for my home when I don’t need one…? Edit: oh, I see what you mean. I seem to be getting a lot of flack for this haha; the long and short of it is I’ve not really thought about it all that much. Also users would just see ‘block all incoming traffic’ and assume...

Okidoke. Thanks for your help. It might be I need to get something a bit more involved if I still have issues.

I suppose I want to see or know what is being blocked; so I can pin down why certain things start breaking when I enable it. I can't see any firewall specific traffic logs; would you see blocked traffic in System Log -> Connections? I don't want to start adding Inbound rules at random really...

I don't have any reason to make this up; just relaying my experiences. Anyway - I assume there isn't a more configurable firewall app for Merlin?

Maybe its a DSL thing then - I've only ever had copper/FTTC etc so I've always needed a modem/router - and the Gnuton firmware I used on my DSL-AC82U had it disabled by default.

Yeah I'm not sure why I'm having issues either. As I said, its not like its my first rodeo with firewalls; I've been managing enterprise ones for years. But every time I enable a consumer firewall it just doesn't seem to work; and theres not much feedback to figure out why. Its the only...

I've turned AI Protection on...no limitations so far that I can see.

I have never used a firewall at home...firewalls on consumer level routers have usually been more hassle than they're worth. Plus with dynamic IPs from my ISP, I've never seen the need. However, after a bit of a scammer-related security scare; I want to enable it. I'm used to managing...

Agreed! But you played your part too, Dave. Thanks again. Chris

Right, got it. Using ps | grep ctrld I found the /jffs/controld folder, which I rm'd recursively, and rebooted. Now, netstat gives me admin@DSL-AX82U-4B38:/tmp/home/root# netstat -nlp | grep :53 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5167/dnsmasq tcp...

You might be right. I've killed the file, re-installed Diversion and the ctrld reference is still there in netstat. What a ballache

Yeah, lots of references to ctrld in there. Can I just nuke the whole file?

I've already uninstalled it; I remember now that I considered going down the DoT route only and came across ctrld as an option. However, I uninstalled it; but it still seems to be taking over DNS requests. I think I need to look at the dnsmasq config; ctrld's manual says it interfaces with...

Where are you seeing that; which line is indicating a ctrld addon?