Recent content by mwhaples

To be clear, new clients don't even get an IPv4 address when this happens. I can manually assign a IPv4 address on the client and also manually set a DNS server and it can get internet access. So it seems like dnsmasq may be entirely dead. In the past I have waited for over an hour without...

Further thought: Whatever is upsetting dnsmasq, may be no IPv6 address on the WAN interface, why should this take down dnsmasq entirely until a restart? Would be good if dnsmasq could recover itself.

That is a thought, but will it mean I will loose the ability to refer to devices on my LAN by hostname? Would prefer that over remembering the different IPs. I have heard that as a common fix to many Asus issues. Not sure it really sits well with me as a long term fix, particularly if the cause...

Thanks for your reply, it helped me understand may be what is going on and make sense of the logs. Here are a few more entries from the log, the entry immediately preceeding these was at 12:47 (over 15 minutes earlier). Feb 24 13:05:37 ddns: ppp0 has not yet obtained an WAN IPv6 address.(10) Feb...

Hello, I wasn't quite sure where to post this, its a Asus firmware issue but it could lead into selecting new equipment. I am having issues with dnsmasq on my Asus ZenWiFi BT10. Every week or two devices on my network start having connection issues, both wired and wireless. By connection issue I...