Beta RT-AC68U 9.0.0.4.386.41994 Beta Version

[prosperot]

I don't see how else they can, 1. protect their customers in a timely manner and 2. without fully testing a solution first, do otherwise.

Well for the 'timely manner'. Its 2 months later now and the Asus websites still offers this beta as the latest firmware version.
"Please be noted this is a quick fix beta version for DNSmasq vulnerabilities" :-S

I think that 2 months should have been enough to offer a official version of its firmware

 

[L&LD]

Like every other manufacturer, resources are limited.

That is why I'm running v386. 2_2 for myself and my customers. Which is based on v42095.

Changelog (current) | Asuswrt-Merlin

www.asuswrt-merlin.net

 

[wouterv]

Anyhow I don't have issues with my RT-AC68U running 9.0.0.4.386.41994.
I don't mind to sit back and wait for further updates.

 

[bbunge]

I installed the beta 9.0.0.4 on my rt-ac68u and I can not get the openVPN to connect to the android phone apps. openVPN was working perfectly with the prior FW. And yes I downloaded a new client.opvn config file with the included cert from the router to the cell phone app. I noticed that the Beta .opvn file has slightly different settings for...
"
# for OpenVPN 2.4 or older
comp-lzo yes
# for OpenVPN 2.4 or newer
;compress lzo
"

where as the prior file had just ...
comp-lzo adaptive

So I changed the new file to use "adaptive" syntax and it still failed to connect.
I suspect something has changed with openVPN in this beta 9.0.0.4 rel and I can not figure out how to make it work.

Any suggestions?

UPDATE: I now have openVPN working in this beta rel. The problem was my doing. After updating I did a factory reset to ensure everything was fresh start. But I failed to get the DDNS->dns updater->dns host->client.ovpn file fully re-enabled and correlated. Hence the openVPN client was using the wrong IP address because the dns didn't resolve properly. I noticed the error in the log when openvpn attempted a connect. Sorry for the false alarm

Comp-lzo has been deprecated. Setting should be none or off.