Re: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

2020-11-05 Thread Verdi R-D
I experienced this as well dealing with some soho "routers" such as the RT-AC1200. I imagine this configuration is something in-common with a lot of their offerings. The issue was resolved by making sure the primary DHCP server and the Asus device both pointed to the same DNS server. On Wed, Nov 4

Re: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

2020-11-04 Thread George Herbert
This is annoying behavior, because unless you are doing something weird with actually signing DNS or TCP DNS, the router can just inject a fake response for their one DNS name they need into any UDP DNS stream with a tiny bit of inspection. Hijacking all of DNS is the DUMB way to do it. And eithe

RE: {Disarmed} Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

2020-11-04 Thread Tony Wicks
I had a similar discussion with another vendor recently while testing their mesh wireless systems. This vendor’s units are actually re-writing dhcp requests that clients make to point DNS to the primary mesh unit. This even happened when the mesh platform was in pure bridge mode (as opposed to r