Wyze cams slowing/causing internet issues

[AnoMoss]

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Wyze v3 massive DNS traffic

I am having an issue with my Wyze cam v3 sending several thousand DNS requests each second. This is causing problems with my Wi-Fi and my security gateway’s CPU. Sending several thousand packets like this causes ~60% CPU consumption to process all of the suspicious traffic. This limits bandwidth for legitimate traffic on my network so I need to resolve this. When this happens I can see in the firewall log that the device is sending massive amounts of DNS requests to resolve www.google.com over …

With four v3 cams I bet your network is getting crushed with DNS packets. I would suggest logging the DNS traffic to confirm. I bet your volume will be eye-popping