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Unleashed AP Constantly Pinging Apple's Domains

charles_ross_i9 — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:52:18 GMT

Hi,

I have a two R510 Ruckus Unleashed system, and the master AP is constantly (literally every minute) doing DNS lookups for a whole bunch of Apple domains, primarily related to captive portals.

These domains include:

captive.apple.com
captive.g.aaplimg.com
captive-cidr.origin-apple.com.akadns.net

I have over 4,881 queries from my master AP to these domains in less than a 24-hour period. It is becoming infuriating, and I have verified that this has absolutely nothing to do with actual Apple devices; I removed *all* Apple devices from the network, and the issue persists. The source of the DNS queries is the Master AP, NOT any end-user devices.

I'd really like to know why a Ruckus product is so intent on reaching out to Apple's servers.

I am not the first one here to post concerns of this nature, but I haven't found any answers. What is going on? How can this be reported to Ruckus?

Re: Unleashed AP Constantly Pinging Apple's Domains

karthik — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:16:10 GMT

Ofcourse you are not the first one to ask this question.
Our Experts in this Forum Michael Brado and Mike Kuly had answered a question in below community post may help you.
https://forums.ruckuswireless.com/ruckuswireless/topics/dns-requests-to-baidu-com-from-unleashed-ap

HTH
Karthik.

Re: Unleashed AP Constantly Pinging Apple's Domains

MrOfTheObvious — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:32:39 GMT

The post you are linking gets a 404 error.

Re: Unleashed AP Constantly Pinging Apple's Domains

sanjay_kumar — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:13:38 GMT

Hi @MrOfTheObvious

Please find the below post, I have provided complete information about this issue and the solution.
We have resolved the issue on 200.14

https://community.ruckuswireless.com/t5/Unleashed/DNS-lookups-and-outbound-HTTP-to-Apple-from-Ruckus-AP/m-p/57253/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8dG9waWNfc3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ufExHUDFTODlHNjRHSUI0fDU3MjUzfFNVQlNDUklQVElPTlN8aEs/page/1