GL-AX1800 - No internet connection after streaming from USB

Technical Support for Routers
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I was streaming a show from the router’s usb thumbdrive. There were a few times where it was hanging (sound ok, but video hung). After I was done, I went to the ios app and tried to deleted the show (did not delete). Subsequently, everything stopped working. Wifi still shows connected, but can’t reach any website. I was able to get into the router login page after a few tries, but unable to login. App doesn’t work either. Unable to ssh to my server on the network. But ping 8.8.8.8 on my laptop works fine.

I installed Watchcat in hopes that the router would reset itself, but I don’t understand why it was able to ping google, but any connection was unusable. While I was watching the show, internet was fine. I suspect after trying to delete the file, everything crashed.

Settings:

  • Wireguard Commercial VPN (VLAN)
  • Samba (configured via Luci) using guest access to watch shows from my USB drive to my Fire TV
  • Private 5G and 2.4G
  • AdGuard Home
  • Tailscale and GoodCloud enabled
  • Watchcat (configured via Luci)
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Looks like a DNS problem, can you try stopping tailscal and adguardhome?

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I’ll try that thanks. Can you help me understand why that would cause a dns problem? Is there a way to fix it with keeping Tailscale and adguard enabled?

Edit: Happened again last night and I wasn’t streaming or doing any heavy internet usage, just browsing

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Resolved it. Tailscale issue with my Resolv.conf. Removing magic dns setting on Tailscale fixed it for pinging domain. Hopefully it will allow restart with watchcat

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