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[mackworth]

still have lock up issues both on my wireless laptop and my PC via hard line.  any more advise.
I have reflashed the FW--tried starting over with the set up--same old problems.

So you disabled DNS relay?  Can you describe your lockups?

[bn300]

yes it is off. it is pretty random. for example, It will work for say 5 to 15 minutes then lock for 2-5 minutes.

[mirceani]

Disabling DNS does not help
Actually after that, browsing the net does not work, so I have to turn DNS back on.
Any sugestions?

[mackworth]

Disabling DNS does not help
Actually after that, browsing the net does not work, so I have to turn DNS back on.
Any sugestions?

after you disable dns relay, you need to reset your connection to the router, otherwise you won't get internet.

[mackworth]

yes it is off. it is pretty random. for example, It will work for say 5 to 15 minutes then lock for 2-5 minutes.

That might be something different, atleast the lockups most people see don't go away, unless you restart, not 2-5 minute things.

The issue is that after some period of a couple days, the router just freezes.

[bn300]

That's good to know, but I'm not sure how to fix it? It would freeze up once in a rare while with the 1.21
but after fw 1.32 upgrade it happens all the time. It also seems like it works well for 1/2 hour or so when I first
boot up the pc and then I start getting the lock-ups.

[tjberens]

Mine is working beautifully after disabling DNS relay and manually entering my uplink speed in the QoS engine. Been connected for 11 days and haven't had to reboot.

[hispanico]

Also me ....are 10 days without problem 

Hispanico

[drsteph]

Helped with the hard connection, but the wireless still locks up about every 24 hours requiring a reboot of the router.

I'm ready to take a hammer to the router.  It worked fine until I foolishly upgraded the hardware.

[tjberens]

It worked fine until I foolishly upgraded the hardware.

How'd you upgrade the hardware?

[Jon8RFC]

Disabling DNS, for me, only prolongs the usefulness by a few days.  The performance gets worse after about 3-4 days of normal usage, and although at day 10 I can still access the router configuration page, the performance is awful until I power cycle the router.  Disabling DNS has a seemingly slower effect on performance degradation, but it's definitely not a fix for the 1.3x firmware performance problem I have.

[mackworth]

Disabling DNS, for me, only prolongs the usefulness by a few days.  The performance gets worse after about 3-4 days of normal usage, and although at day 10 I can still access the router configuration page, the performance is awful until I power cycle the router.  Disabling DNS has a seemingly slower effect on performance degradation, but it's definitely not a fix for the 1.3x firmware performance problem I have.

is it a performance problem or a freeze?

[Victor]

On June 29th Lycan, who is as a "tech-engineer", started this thread. It's August 27th, two months later, and a lot of people have confirmed that they have seen router hangs when DNS relay is enabled.

My question is when will D-Link fix the problem? DNS relay is part of a widely used open source package that is generally very reliable, so I don't understand why there isn't a beta firmware release that fixes the problem by now.

[oberon4]

Please do something about it! I had 1.21 for long time and never restarted the router. After upgrade to 1.32NA (clean upgrade) I have to restart it 1-3 times a day (I and my wife work from home).

P.S. I disabled DNS relay, NTP update.

Please help!!!

[Jon8RFC]

is it a performance problem or a freeze?

Performance so far.  However, the performance decline is so frustrating that I may not be giving it enough time to freeze completely.  This week I made it to 1 day 17 hours before performance was unacceptable, but it also was not at the very poor performance it typically reaches and I did not give it a chance to get very poor since I'm back on my routine of rebooting when performance begins to decline instead of waiting until it's practically unusable.

I need to describe this very carefully so it's properly understood.  I did not allow the performance to get as bad as it has when the router becomes inaccessible, and my reason is that because it progressed more slowly, I had to deal with poor performance for many days (rather than a quick downward spiral over a period of 12-36 hours and rebooting) and I eventually couldn't cope with it any longer.  Again, performance was well below normal, but it had not yet reached the 10% chance of having a webpage load as before; it was at about 50-60% chance of having a webpage load but I was dealing with having to refresh pages for many days and I couldn't bear dealing with it any longer since the performance problem obviously had not gone away.  If I had the patience to wait until what probably would have been 25 days of uptime (with 22 days of declining performance) until I reached that common 10% success rate, I would be able to check if the router had frozen...it's painfully frustrating to know how to restore performance so easily yet force myself to suffer through an awful internet experience.  I'm surprised I made it to day 10 instead of rebooting at day 3, when it first became problematic.

To reiterate, I did not have any performance or lockup problems with firmware 1.21 with DNS relay enabled and although disabling DNS relay appears to have helped, I believe that it's a partial fix for the symptom rather than a fix for the problem.  It still feels like a memory leak since I only made it to 1 day 17 hours this round despite DNS relay being disabled.