[shampto3]

Interesting. I have asus zenwifi mesh routers and today one of the nodes went offline and it took me a while to realize and then fix it. The fix was manually updating all of the firmware for every mesh router, so it seems like it was a similar problem.

EDIT: crap, I just checked again and two of my nodes are offline now. Only the root node is working. Too late in the evening to fix it now, guess I’ll be working on that in the morning.

[JdeBP]

The local fix is, reportedly, to delete the malware signature file that is breaking ASUS's proprietary malware scanner.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984706

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984725

The service fix is for ASUS to make a malware scanner that doesn't have such bad behaviour in the case of a signature file that it cannot process, and to not use a logging mechanism that we knew had this flaw in the 1980s, and improved upon in the 1990s. (-:

[shampto3]

UPDATE: I followed the instructions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35986375 for each of the nodes and it appears to have solved the problem, at least for now. I will keep an eye on them to make sure they don't die again.

The frustrating part was that my home assistant raspberry pi was hardwired into one of the nodes that died, so my automation to change my thermostat wasn't working and it was stuck on a setting that I normally only set for one hour in the day. Obviously I could change it manually, but I didn't realize that it hadn't changed until it had been like 5 hours.

[garbagewoman]

UPDATE: the fix appears to be swapping out the ASUS routers for anything else