Something Not working correctly with hostname of router screwing up Time Machine

[ComputerSteve]

I was no able to fix this problem but I made my life a lot easier by having my Mac constantly running a monitering script to keep this problem at bay.

mDNS name drifting on ZenWiFi XT8

I've got this issue where the mDNS name of my router keeps changing or -should I say- increasing. What do I mean by "mDNS name"? One of my router's hostname is set to `ZenWiFi_XT8-Main`, so it's reachable at `zenwifi_xt8-main.local`, and this ".local" name is the mDNS name. What is the...

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So for people who don't want to setup a special computer to run a monitoring script I think this should be looked at more ! IDK if its @RMerlin who does that or its something wrong with the firmware from ASUS? This still happens to me as well and the way I resolve it is by putting in services-start
sleep 600 # sleep for 600 seconds
service restart_timemachine

 

[visortgw]

So for people who don't want to setup a special computer to run a monitoring script I think this should be looked at more ! IDK if its @RMerlin who does that or its something wrong with the firmware from ASUS? This still happens to me as well and the way I resolve it is by putting in services-start
sleep 600 # sleep for 600 seconds
service restart_timemachine

Or, simply use the IP address if you are having issues with the hostname.