Excessive traffic to Australian servers?

[lordgurke]

After what I’ve seen on the networks I administrate, there are some TP-Link devices that are doing excessive NTP and DNS queries (to the local resolver).
I can’t tell at the moment, if they are asking for au.pool.ntp.org - I could find out in the next few days.
From what I’ve seen I can tell, they are definetily using pool NTP servers. I just can’t tell which pool

The exact model I’ve spotted is a TL-WA860RE WiFi repeater. I don’t have any details to configuration or firmware version since I have no access to these devices.

EDIT: Maybe related to this one?
Could be a new firmware version which brought back the old behaviour?

TP Link and NZ + AU servers

TP-Link has made available new firmware updates for most models that resolves the issue. The update changes their internet connectivity testing from NTP requests against hardcoded addresses including NTP pool servers to ICMP requests against the local network gateway. Notably, these devices don’t have auto-update, the manual check-for-update button in their web interface always reports that the software is up-to-date, and TP-Link doesn’t make the latest firmware versions available through the…