Network monitoring - still pinging every minute even though its switched off

[bakgwei]

I need a little help here: I have disabled Network Monitoring (--> Administration --> System). Yet my router still pings wikipedia.org every minute.

I could reproduce this by 1) enabling Network Monitoring again, 2) changing the destination address to qq.com, and then 3) disabling Network Monitoring again. Now, the router pings qq.com every minute (instead of wikipedia.org).

Is there a way to disable this completely? I am using NextDNS on the free plan, so this is literally eating up my 300.000 free DNS queries per month.

 

[L&LD]

Does a reboot help?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Does a reboot help?

No it doesn't.

@RMerlin I can confirm this bug/feature on RT-AX86U w/ 386.3. I don't know whether this was the case with previous versions.

With Network Monitoring - Ping enabled the router does a target name resolution and ping every 5 seconds. In addition there is another name resolution and ping every 60 seconds.

When Network Monitoring - Ping is disabled the 5 second ping stops but the additional 60 second ping continues to run.

@bakgwei A workaround is to enable Network Monitoring - Ping and erase the contents of the Ping Target field. Then apply that change. The pings will now stop. You can now uncheck the Ping box and apply that change as normal if you want to.

 

[bakgwei]

@ColinTaylor: Thanks for the workaround - I can confirm that this works for me as well and stops the ping every minute. Great!