Hi all,
First I'm just going to start with the shamefully obvious: I did some things I didn't fully understand and I think the problem(s) I'm having now came as a result. Maybe not! I also have a pretty terrible ISP.
My dynamic IP is not changing. I have had the same public IP for a few weeks now. I have been unable to renew it. I first noticed this and it became a problem when I tried to signup and post on a different forum and was blocked for "spam." I emailed the board admin who told me my IP was on a blacklist and that there was nothing they could do. They suggested I just change my IP address. I did the usual unplug/reset of the modem and router with no affect. Trying `ipconfig /release` and `ipconfig /renew` also had no affect. I've disconnected everything from the router and modem and left them both off for 30 minutes. I've done a hard reset on the router multiple times, re-flashed firmware, etc. Nothing gets me a new IP.
Usually I wouldn't care but given the fact that I'm stuck on a blacklisted IP that someone used to spam in the past and that I'm having regularly connection issues (a few days ago I was having trouble on a video call (the only thing really happening on the network at the time) and a speed test gave me 2.32mbps down/6.54mbps up. I reset the router and got 67.0mbps down, 43.3mbps up. Just now I took it and got 515.0mbps down, 0.06mbps up.) I feel like whatever is happening here is probably a symptom of something else that is causing a wider range of annoying problems. Maybe I get a dynamic IP again and still have the connection issues but then at least I know it wasn't that!
Here's a rundown of info that might be relevant:
First I'm just going to start with the shamefully obvious: I did some things I didn't fully understand and I think the problem(s) I'm having now came as a result. Maybe not! I also have a pretty terrible ISP.
My dynamic IP is not changing. I have had the same public IP for a few weeks now. I have been unable to renew it. I first noticed this and it became a problem when I tried to signup and post on a different forum and was blocked for "spam." I emailed the board admin who told me my IP was on a blacklist and that there was nothing they could do. They suggested I just change my IP address. I did the usual unplug/reset of the modem and router with no affect. Trying `ipconfig /release` and `ipconfig /renew` also had no affect. I've disconnected everything from the router and modem and left them both off for 30 minutes. I've done a hard reset on the router multiple times, re-flashed firmware, etc. Nothing gets me a new IP.
Usually I wouldn't care but given the fact that I'm stuck on a blacklisted IP that someone used to spam in the past and that I'm having regularly connection issues (a few days ago I was having trouble on a video call (the only thing really happening on the network at the time) and a speed test gave me 2.32mbps down/6.54mbps up. I reset the router and got 67.0mbps down, 43.3mbps up. Just now I took it and got 515.0mbps down, 0.06mbps up.) I feel like whatever is happening here is probably a symptom of something else that is causing a wider range of annoying problems. Maybe I get a dynamic IP again and still have the connection issues but then at least I know it wasn't that!
Here's a rundown of info that might be relevant:
- My primary machine is a laptop with Windows 10 Home, connected via wifi
- I have two other machines connected through a TP-Link TL-SG105 unmanaged switch which is then connected directly to the back of the router
- An old desktop running latest Xubuntu, connected via ethernet
- A laptop with Windows 10 Enterprise that is connected via ethernet
- It uses an always-on Zscaler corporate proxy
- I have two other machines connected through a TP-Link TL-SG105 unmanaged switch which is then connected directly to the back of the router
- I have a 500mbps connection (from Breezeline fka WowWay, a mediocre ISP)
- They do not offer a static IP and I have confirmed that with them
- I asked if they could assign a new IP and they said they could not and that I would have to go through their tech support specialists for help.
- I haven't yet bothered with that as I feel like it's just going to be a very long and annoying experience that doesn't solve anything.
- Spending an hour on the hold to get told to restart my router is a last resort right now.
- I haven't yet bothered with that as I feel like it's just going to be a very long and annoying experience that doesn't solve anything.
- I'm using my own personal equipment rather than their rental options:
- Modem: ARRIS SB8200
- Router: ASUS RT-AX58U
- Currently running latest stock firmware buthad been running the latest Merlin until recently.
- Rolled back to stock in an effort to undo anything I had done that might be causing current trouble. No effect.
- Currently running latest stock firmware buthad been running the latest Merlin until recently.
- I have slowly been working on learning & setting up a variety of self-hosted resources
- Two Raspberry Pis are connected to the router via ethernet
- Pi #1 is running Home Assistant OS
- Nortek HUSBZB-1 Z-Wave/Zigbee radio directly plugged in via USB
- Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 radio plugged in via USB 3.0 extender cord (to reduce interference)
- Pi #2 is running Jellyfin media server and a subsonic client with Navidrome
- Plus three external HDDs via USB as a JBOD "NAS" setup
- Occasional access via remote SFTP connection (with username/password)
- Pi #1 is running Home Assistant OS
- At one point I had tried to install PiHole on Pi #2. I was taking things slow through the setup but I definitely didn't/don't have a full understanding of everything. It definitely involved making changes to DNS and DHCP settings. I was having connection trouble once it was "up" and so after some struggling and attempted "fixes" of various kinds I decided to roll it back and get rid of it until I better understand things. This was a while ago and I didn't take notes so I don't really remember this whole situation well. I know that I had went through the process of manually assigning Pi #2 a static IP but I also undid that after facing connectivity issues.
- The internal IP of Pi #2 has not changed.
- Manually assigning IPs is disabled in the router settings.
- Every client on the Network Map appears with a DHCP tag.
- In setting up remote SFTP access on Pi #2 I had a bit of trouble. The 3 HDDs are NTFS formatted so I was running into permissions issues when trying to make them accessible while jailing remote users (I use it to transfer large files to a friend).
- At some point I tried again with a static IP, this time using the command line on the Pi.
- It did not work and would just cause me to lose connection, so I did not pursue it any further and I'm 99% sure I removed all changes I had made.
- I worried this might be an issue so I swapped the Pi SD card for one with a totally untouched clean OS. This had no effect on the problem so I've switched back to my original SD/OS.
- Two Raspberry Pis are connected to the router via ethernet
- I am currently using Cloudflare DNS, set in the router settings. At various points I have also used Google, Adguard, and my ISP. No effect.
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;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 36082
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; archlinux.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
archlinux.org. 1723 IN A 95.217.163.246
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
;; Query time: 47 msec
;; EDNS: version 0; flags: do ; udp: 512
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8
;; WHEN: Mon May 8 10:41:10 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 58
real 0m0.054s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.007s -
24 packets transmitted, 24 received, 0% packet loss, time 23558ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.186/0.241/0.422/0.049 ms -
May 06 14:43:57 {Linux PC Name} audit[695]: AVC apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=695 comm="apparmor_parser"
May 06 14:43:57 {Linux PC Name} audit[695]: AVC apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper" pid=695 comm="apparmor_parser"
May 06 14:44:08 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398648.5583] dhcp-init: Using DHCP client 'internal'
May 06 14:44:11 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398651.9717] dhcp4 (enp4s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 06 14:44:15 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398655.9686] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed new lease, address=xxx.xxx.xx.208
May 06 14:44:27 {Linux PC Name} dnsmasq[1098]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt DBus no-UBus i18n IDN2 DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP conntrack ipset auth cryptohash DNSSEC loop-detect inotify dumpfile
May 06 14:44:27 {Linux PC Name} dnsmasq-dhcp[1098]: DHCP, IP range 10.0.3.2 -- 10.0.3.254, lease time 1h
May 06 14:44:27 {Linux PC Name} dnsmasq-dhcp[1098]: DHCP, sockets bound exclusively to interface lxcbr0
May 06 14:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398872.0737] dhcp4 (enp4s0): canceled DHCP transaction
May 06 14:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398872.0737] dhcp4 (enp4s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 06 14:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398872.0737] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed no lease
May 06 14:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398872.0974] dhcp4 (enp4s0): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 06 14:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683398872.5389] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed new lease, address=xxx.xxx.xx.208
May 06 16:55:22 {Linux PC Name} sudo[14081]: {Linux PC Name} : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/lib/dhcp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/netplan ip leases eth0
May 06 16:55:37 {Linux PC Name} sudo[14094]: {Linux PC Name} : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/var/lib/dhcp ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/netplan ip leases ens160
May 07 02:47:52 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683442072.1788] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed new lease, address=xxx.xxx.xx.208
May 07 13:39:24 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683481164.1830] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed new lease, address=xxx.xxx.xx.208
May 08 00:53:22 {Linux PC Name} NetworkManager[782]: <info> [1683521602.1541] dhcp4 (enp4s0): state changed new lease, address=xxx.xxx.xx.208
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