172800 DNS queries per day from RadiX AXE6600

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I recently set up a RadiX AXE6600, and I put it into access point mode. Every three seconds, it queries dns.msftncsi.com twice and www.msftncsi.com four times. (This may have started before AP mode, but I didn't check then.) It repeats this over and over and over. I read that this domain is used in Windows for network awareness, though of course the AXE6600 is not a Windows device. None of my other devices (including router, access points, and Windows devices) query any domain this aggressively. I read that the ASUS RT-AC68W does this, and it can be turned off with telnet to disable the DNS probe.

Does anyone know why the RadiX AXE660 aggressively querying DNS? What is this feature for? Why 6 queries every 3 seconds? How to get it back off?

On the dashboard of the AXE6600 below shows the X icon for the Internet, though the Internet seems fine to me. Does the X indicate a problem? What exactly is the AXE6600 doing to check for this problem? I am wondering if it is not getting the result it expects, so it retries because it thinks there is an error.

Firmware: 720348 (latest)

 

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So, any updates to this? Why does the router need to check for internet connectivity every second?

 

[teletubby_po]

can you connect to the internet through the router? could it be the router has some connection error that makes it queries msftncsi so frequent.
have you tried the latest firmware on their website? https://download.msi.com/archive/frm_exe/networking/fw_GRAXE66_722406.zip