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Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

ryan_andres — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:18:34 GMT

Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

samantha_lynn — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:50:12 GMT

Where do you see that they are trying to ping 8.8.8.8? Also, could you run the command "show dns" to see which DNS servers you are using?

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

ryan_andres — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:26:07 GMT

Hi Sam,

Here is the result from my show dns.

show dns

DNS server configuration:

Domain name suffix:{domain}

Primary : 9.9.9.9

Secondary : 149.112.112.112

Tertiary : 199.85.126.20

I see in my firewall logs the ping originating from AP's in my Backhaul network to Google and getting blocked due to my firewall rules on that network. I have attached a screensnip.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

samantha_lynn — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:45:56 GMT

Thank you for that data. Could you send tech data from an AP that is trying to reach 8.8.8.8? If you'd like to send this to me directly, my email is communityhelp@aerohive.com.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

karsten_klein — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 20:56:10 GMT

Hi Sam,

I got the same Problem after upgrading from HiveOS 8.2r6.228034 to HiveOS 10.0r6.231435 on my AP's.

Will send the techdata Asap.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

samantha_lynn — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:10:07 GMT

Hi Karsten, this is a feature of the new Network 360 tab. The ping is expected, to help fill in the connectivity metrics in the Network 360 widgets. It won't hurt anything on the wireless network if this ping can't go through, but you may have some blank reports within HiveManager.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

karsten_klein — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:14:51 GMT

Wow,

that was fast.

There's no chance to get rid of these?

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

samantha_lynn — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:17:25 GMT

Unfortunately it's a built in function at this point. I can submit a feature request to have the ability to turn these off added to a future release if you'd like? Also, if you want to block these with a firewall or content filter, it won't affect your client traffic at all.

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

karsten_klein — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:29:52 GMT

A feature request would be great.

If we had one AP I won't care, but as we got tons of them, this would be a nice feature to disable the icmp tries.

thnx

Re: Why are my AP's trying to ping Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8? I don't have any IP tracking groups configured. Just curious.

samantha_lynn — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:35:52 GMT

Thank you for letting me know, I've submitted that feature request for you now!