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We have received several tickets reporting that Bonjour Forwarding is not working when the user enables the feature between two VLAN interfaces in the Peplink router.
The issue will be noticed after a short period of time, once the feature is activated. The client devices (eg. Apple iPhone, iPad, etc) on the Client Network-VLAN are unable to receive Apple Bonjour traffic (mDNS) from the advertised device(s), eg. AirPlay, AirPrint, etc, on the Service Network-VLAN.
@bruce.wh.kuok I have checked, the fixes in 8.5.3s093 are independent and not included in 8.5.3s101. However, both special firmware fixes will be added in the next GA firmware.
If you have an immediate situation that needs both fixes, do let us know, and we will see how to accommodate that.
@soylentgreen some of the described symptoms in the ticket matched with other occasions we have from a different user. You can try to load this special firmware, and report back to us if you still encounter the issue.
If required, we can re-open the ticket (PTS#25020175) and follow up with you on the case.
Immediately after rebooting in 8.5.3s101, some devices IOT devices (on ethernet VLAN) are unable to get DNS service. Powercycling the devices doesn’t help.
What did help is Disabling DNS Proxy and DNS Caching, saving changes, then powercyling the devices. At that point I can turn DNS Proxy and Caching back on and all is normal, at least for a while…then days later something starts to malfunction again. [Edit: at least with 8.5.3 release version - I will report back in a few days to see if this special s101 build also has that problem]
I don’t know if this is two manifestations of the same bug, or two different bugs, but it sure would be nice to get this issue fixed (it seems to be some combination of: Ethernet VLAN, Outbound Policy, and DNS Proxy/Caching) but I’ve never been able to figure out the exact issue.
Running 8.5.4 build 5808 on my Balance One for just about one month, and I have some mixed news to report:
Upon reboot in 8.5.4, I still had the same old problem where various IOT devices were being denied DNS. Toggling DNS caching on/off seemed to fix it, and it hasn’t recurred.
After a couple weeks of uptime, with earlier 8.5.4 and 8.5.x builds, some of my IOT devices would stop working. I wasn’t sure if this was a DNS issue or perhaps a Bonjour issue. The good news is that with 8.5.4 built 5808, I’m at 28 days of uptime and all IOT/VLAN devices are staying connected.
