Recent content by carlucci

Thank you for the education! I'll use this to troubleshoot next time it pops up.

Thank you both for your responses. Admittedly, I've had a difficult time in the past learning the separation between DHCP and DNS, but I have a much better handle on it these days. Although, perhaps you're right, I need to pay more attention to DHCP lease-renewal when this issue pops up. FWIW -...

DSL-AX82U here. When I first got my router, I struggled to get devices on the network to resolve by their host names. After some research and tinkering, I've accomplished this by entering my router's IP address in the LAN DHCP DNS server setting, as DNS server #1 instead of the "advertise"...

Actually, after a bit more fiddling, and connecting via an actual computer using mobile hotspot to test, I realized I can indeed access the other services via ping and via HTTP. There is just one especially problematic service that isn't responding via HTTP which gave me the wrong impression. So...

Thank you for the response, @eibgrad. I installed the Gnuton Fork of Merlin firmware on my router today and happy I did so. Grateful for the work put in by this community! I've been playing with the settings all day, trying to learn. I've noticed that when I setup my VPN Client on the router...

Hi there, I'm brand new to the forum. Quite new to the deeper aspects of networking, but slowly learning. I also have an DSL-AX82U and am experiencing the same issue. When the VPN client is activated (ProtonVPN), devices external to the network cannot connect to the VPN server. As soon as I...