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  1. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

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

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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...
  3. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

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

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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...
  5. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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?
  6. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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.
  7. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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...
  8. colourofsound

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

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

    Asus-Merlin Firewall

    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...
  10. colourofsound

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

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

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

    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...
  12. colourofsound

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

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

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

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

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

    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...
  15. colourofsound

    Diversion Odd DNS issues

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