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Julia Kozub

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Aug 2, 2024, 5:11:25 AM8/2/24

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Hello,

At home I have a mix of Deco M9 and Deco X90 as Wi-Fi access point. My network is managed by my internet service provider box, and DNS/DHCP is managed by AdGuard Home. There, I see very regular connexions to sites that I do not use at the time of the check: netflix, reddit, amazon.com, live.com.

Here is an example:

I can guess that maybe it is used to check if Internet access is up, but I blocked these request and it had no impact.
None of my network equipment shall perform such request on its own, moreover requesting website that are tracking user activiites.

So I really would like to understand why these requests are performed and if tp-link can prevent them. Could you confirm you also see these requests ?

Here is what I blocked:
netflix.com^$client='192.168.1.50'
reddit.com^$client='192.168.1.50'
amazon.com^$client='192.168.1.50'
youtube.com^$client='192.168.1.50'
live.com^$client='192.168.1.50'

One DNS query per second. That is a lot. And to hosts that I do not want to share my online status with. I can understand if you ping the official tp-link website WHEN the cloud connection of the module is down, but I do not understand that constant scan which does not seem very useful.

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