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Have you had any issues with the auto updater? I got rid of my Omnia after an auto-update broke DNS while I was away from home.

Ironically, went to Unifi after reading Troy's blogs about it - now regretting it immensely as the hardware is nowhere near as powerful as the Omnia.

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This happened to me too, and what I learned is that the Omnia uses the Knot DNS resolver, which re-enables itself after updates and this breaks everything if you have made certain customisations.

The fix is to disable this with "echo 'Uninstall("knot-resolver", { priority = 60 })' >> /etc/updater/conf.d/user.lua" over SSH so it stays disabled. You can do this for any service you modified or disabled, and the documentation barely mentions this (it's a real showstopper bug until you diagnose it - no connectivity whatsoever).

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