Ok - I have installed a pi-hole, and am seeing MASSIVE pings/queries over DNS to www.google.com . I’m trying to pin it down - and STRONGLY suspect it is a Wyze Cam. This started after a new cam went online a week or two ago, and required a firmware update. I just reset my pihole about 25 minutes a…

[image] tim1: It really seems to be slowing down my network. Really? Pings and DNS requests are tiny. Unless you are on a slow dialup, the rate that you are seeing these would hardly be noticable… Granted, that statement does not necessarily make the number of packets right or wrong, but p…

I am only assuming pings and DNS - I have not gotten anything out to exam packets yet. Other posts about the same thing (Dec '21, etc) indicate that packets are being sent, encrypted. And I do know my network. Since this started, I’ve had a lot of issues with buffering (Roku was doing something s…

I will say, I’ve unplugged my newest V3 - and the packets have slowed dramatically over the last 30-40 minutes. I’ve still got a couple more I’ll pull to confirm it IS the V3 cams causing the issue

[image] Mitigating the Impact of the Wyze Cam V3 ‘Excessive DNS requests’ firmware bug Cameras As well as a number of other users who have reported this in this forum, I as well have been hit by the infamous ‘Excessive DNS requests’ bug. I have summarized my findings and …

Thanks! I’ll have to see if my router supports that. Not sure if it does. What is happening is that the DNS queries are hammering my Pihole, and it’s FLOODING the sd card with logs. Actually destroyed one card already (probably on it’s last legs), and is filling the other. Found out that the la…

Yeah, and as of this morning too, I’ve seen that pihole is now rate limiting me as well. My pihole is configured to be the DNS server for anything that gets a DHCP address. Also found that I had over 1000 requests in 60 seconds recorded by the pihole. I don’t have rule-level firewall control, so …

Depending on your router, you may be able to configure the Wyze cam to use a diffrent dns, so it doesn’t kill your pihole. That could work as a temp fix.

Sorry for the delay, been very busy at both work and home. I’ve decided the only way at this point to get around the issue is to put another Wifi AP in the network, but place it between my current AP/router, and my ISPs router. I can’t set up multiple subnets with different DNS on just the one rou…

Also experiencing this issue. [image]

Anyone seeing this issue should take a log next time it happens. Go to the cams settings > Wyze support. Put the log number here.

MASSIVE pings/queries over DNS to www.google.com

Tips & Tricks

IEatBeans July 2, 2022, 1:35am 5

Seems to be popping up more and more lately, search dns in the forum search box.

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MASSIVE pings/queries over DNS to www.google.com

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