Vilo

Here we go, trying to adapt to a new access point, a Vilo 6.

It does 802.11AX to allow a GB connection for Pearl. That and getting rid of the UniFi controller software. Instead I have to use an app on a smartphone. Not crazy over that but I can live with it.

History

2023-09-09 Replaced the UniFi WAP. Purchased from Streakwave 9/1 for $65

Setup notes

Set up was a bit sketchy, but it's not as I feared, "cloud managed". So I can work with it.

It's in BRIDGE mode.

Also I did the thing that splits it into two SSID's "wildsong" is 5 GHz and "wildsong2" is 2.4. This is specifically to support our Tuya-based switches and dimmers, they are unhappy on combined networks according to their docs.

IPV6 DNS glitch

Pearl was getting an IPv6 DNS server setting from the Vilo 6.

That meant Pearl was no longer paying attention to PiHole since it preferred the Vilo. Access to the Internet was fine but it did not resolve my local IP addresses.

The fix I came up for Windows 11 with is to disable DNS over IPV6 by doing this to favor IPv4 over IPv6. It is not recommended to use value 255 because that disables IPv6 entirely.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters" /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 32 /f

Windows 10 is different. It turns out the Vilo is doing DHCP on the ethernet too! (It is in bridge mode after all.) It appears the registry fix is for W 11 only, so it won't work on Murre. I bet this one works on either. Not ideal darn darn. Breaks nslookup. Darn. https://superuser.com/questions/1450259/windows-10-disable-auto-configuring-dns-servers-via-ipv6-connection

Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network Connections -> Ethernet Properties -> Internet Protocol Version 6 -> "Use the following DNS Server addresses" set preferred to ::1 This works instantly, no need to log out or reboot. This works by breaking the IPv6 DNS server setting so that it fails to IPv4 always and requires no special registry hack.