dmonds DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Auckland
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Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:04 Post subject: HTTPS Connection Not Secure (Linksys WRT1900AC v1) |
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Ok, so wierd issue with Acer laptop at home.
My daughter cam to me yesterday and said she could not bring up a simple google page...she was getting "This page not secure" message. (jpg attached)
Long story short...after spending most of last night removing crap and re-installing AV etc I though, that's it, need to blow the laptop away and reformat/reinstall.
This evening, just before I blew the laptop away, I decided to connect it to the wireless access point via an ethernet cable...and yes, the Google page came up perfectly.
Issue must be with wireless config.
I use the services tab to create custom DHCP assigned IPAddresses and set DNS servers. (config attached)
When I exclude her laptop ("MelsLaptop" in the config), everything works perfectly over wifi as well.
I struggled with this and tried lots of different DNS servers IP addresses etc...but in the end when I was about to pull my hair out, I power cycled the access point.
Everything works as expected now.
So, what's going on here?
I have the router soft reboot every night and this obviously didn't fix the issue, but a hard power cycle did.
Is this a case of memory leakage or random corruption somwhere (DNSMasq perhaps)?
If no-one can advise me what's going on, I hope at least this helps other people who stumble across similar random issues.
Cheers |
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dmonds DD-WRT Novice
Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Auckland
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 0:30 Post subject: |
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eibgrad wrote: | Not really much to go on here. Not obvious why DNSMasq itself would be the issue, unless having restarted it cleared up a memory leak or other problem it was creating. Perhaps if you had killed some other arbitrary, non-vital process, it would have cleared up the problem just as well. |
Probably...but which to choose?
eibgrad wrote: | I assume once you cold rebooted you were able to continue using "MelsLaptop" in the DNSMasq config. |
Correct.
eibgrad wrote: | Did other wireless users have the same problem? |
Nope.
eibgrad wrote: | Did other browsers besides Firefox have the same problem? |
Yes. Edge and Internet explorer displayed the exact same issue. In fact every single search engine that I tried had this issue across the three browsers.
eibgrad wrote: | Did you check the status page for anything unusually, like memory exhaustion? High CPU load? |
No. I didn't think to do that...will do next time it crops up.
eibgrad wrote: | I realize you probably didn't do these things, you just wanted to get it working again. But if this becomes a recurring problem, you'll need to dig a bit deeper. Because it sounds like something others would have a hard time reproducing. |
Agreed and thanks for your feedback.
Cheers
dmonds |
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