What is 192.168.1.254:53?

I noticed this popping up in my Adguard Home's dashboard in the last couple of days. I don't remember seeing this prior to firmware 4.8. It also has a very high average upstream response time of 1013 Ms!

hmm, have you tried to check if it has a hostname?

With nslookup?

This could maybe give some hints if it is a device on your network, or some misconfiguration i.e a really small dhcp range.

it is a little bit weird, because 254 is the end ip, no misconfigurations on dhcp by luci?

I didn't touch luCI at all. How do I check the hostname?

nslookup 192.168.1.254

What does this do?

If the device behind that ip has a hostname, it will show this, this can hint you what device this is.

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port 53 is dns, i assume it's something related to that.

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I don't know, to be honest with you.

This looks related to Multicast DNS ('mDNS'). There's probably a daemon like avahi or bonjour somewhere on a LAN client.

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Do you have a 2nd router or mesh device on your LAN?

He has Apple devices (read: bonjour). I bet you one updoot that's the cause.

I have my doubts that ip is bonjour, isn't bonjour using mDNS on 244.0.0.251 subnet?, it's still odd though since it is at the broadcast address but that is 255.

If I was OP i would check with tcpdump or check if I can see the hostname, it is also a different route than normal default gl ip 192.168.8.0/24 so I suspect it is the isp router ip?

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OP runs a Flint v2 & a Beryl AX IIRC. I'm pretty sure he changed the default subnet on one of 'em. The default DHCP range in GL GUI -> LAN -> DHCP Server is 192.168.n.100 to 192.168.n.249. I doubt he's bother to change that.

I'd defiantly take a quick look @ the GL GUI -> Clients page before jumping into LuCI/SSH.

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