This may only affect a few users, but the dev team thought we should put the word out so no one was surprised.
The nightly build that will be released as 20250129 changes a firewall behavior.
As it is now by default, if your node (usually a hap of some sort) didn't have a WAN connection, it would go out over the mesh to find an Internet link. It was difficult to make sure this wasn’t happening and not very obvious how to prevent it.
The change implemented in tomorrow's build is the addition of a new switch which will determine if LAN devices of your node can reach the Internet over the AREDN network. And it will be defaulted to off which is a change from current behavior.
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Orv W6BI
AREDN Project Manager
doesn't that mean also that it's no longer possible for the nodes to check for firmware updates, and to download them direclty? and what about NTP sync?
Or did I understand the changes wrong?
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Orv W6BI