DNS Requests to baidu.com from Unleashed AP.

[patrick_lupien]

I had an internet outage at my home yesterday. After taking a look at my PiHole I noticed that my Unleashed R310 had made 1200 DNS requests to that domain in the course of a few hours.

After some searching I've never seen a baidu.com DNS lookup from the AP. Is this an undocumented thing? Just want to make sure that I don't have a compromised firmware or anything.

[patrick_lupien]

Ok, thanks for the info.

[sanjay_kumar]

Hi,

Updating the below info with solution:

By design the APs will use the below sites to check the internet status.
captive.apple.com
www.microsoft.com
www.baidu.com
We have introduced the option to disable the Internet check. With this option, we can disable the internet check completely or disable particular site. This can be done from the CLI

ruckus> en
ruckus# config
You have all rights in this mode.
ruckus(config)# system

ruckus(config-sys)# show internet-check
Internet Check:
Company = apple, Enable = 1

Internet Check:
Company = microsoft, Enable = 1

Internet Check:
Company = ruckus, Enable = 1

Now to disable this use the below command:

ruckus(config-sys)# no internet-check all
The internet check settings have been updated.
ruckus(config-sys)# end
Your changes have been saved.

To cross check:
ruckus(config)# system
ruckus(config-sys)# show internet-check
Internet Check:
Company = apple, Enable = 0

Internet Check:
Company = microsoft, Enable = 0

Internet Check:
Company = ruckus, Enable = 0

I would recommend using this function in 200.14, which will be available from April 2nd week 2023