One of the devices in the list of eBlocker-devices has 2 addresses, how come? (see screenshot). Rebooting the eBlocker doesn't help.
Of course Fritzbox only shows one of them, the 26-number which is also shown in the WiFi-settings of the iPad.
Grz, Rob
Hello,
this may happen, when a device gets a new ip address via DHCP, e.g. after a reboot.
This is quite normal, because in the logged history there are both (or even more) addresses.
To prevent this try to give your devices a fixed ip address via router settings.
cu
The ‘always same IP’ was already set in my Fritz!Box 7590, but thank you for the tip and the explanation.
Rob
@robfranssen-fr @ulmisch I'd recommend using eBlocker's DNS. This avoids IP duplicats and gives you much more privacy as your domain visits will be distributed to different DNS servers. So no one sees all your traffic. In addition you could route the DNS request via TOR if you need high protection.
To get rid of the two IPs you probably just need to do a device scan (under settings>devices hit tab "Device Discovery" and do a manual search). If that doesn't help. Delete device from device list. Hit manual scan. Reconfigure your device. I actually wonder that this didn't get updated automatically. Maybe your auto. scan is turned off?
Just to make this clear: eBlocker doesn't care much about the IP - it's just for display to the user. While in the same network segment (as in a home LAN) addressing takes place by MAC addresses (network adapter address) only. That's how eBlocker identifies the devices - not by IP.
“Use eBlocker as DNS server” was switched ON already with ‘default’ forwarding of DNS requests.
Hit DISCOVER NEW DEVICES and on top of that REFRESH (device list), but the 2 IP-addresses are still there. After rebooting the eBlocker, it showed the ‘one and only’ true IP-address (26). Great, but now i don’t know which of my actions did the job.
Never mind; problem solved, thank you.
@robfranssen-fr Sorry for the confusion. I was confused. I meant to use eBlocker's DHCP (not DNS). Then you could configure (in the individual device settings) that the devices always get's the same IP. Sorry again for the acronym confusion.
Anyhow I'm glad you are happy now 😀 😎
Never mind the confusion 🙂
But isn’t my Fritz!box doing the same thing? I always set “Always give this device the same IP-address” for all devices connected to this router.