Chatty Cameras

DLONG2

DLONG2

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I have 8 cameras in use, all contained within a surveil VLAN which has a rule blocking access to the internet. Taking a look at the 'prosumer' Ubiquiti managed network this morning, I see these 3 cameras are particularly chatty. The IP's they are trying to reach are all listed as belonging to Amazon Cloud within the U.S. It's not clear why these 3 cameras are always trying to call out to specific IP's while the others are only trying to reach the DNS servers.

Z12: IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E
Loryta2: IPC-T5442TM-AS 3.6mm
WiFi Garage: IP2M-841B (Amcrest)
 

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DLONG2 said:
I have 8 cameras in use, all contained within a surveil VLAN which has a rule blocking access to the internet. Taking a look at the 'prosumer' Ubiquiti managed network this morning, I see these 3 cameras are particularly chatty. The IP's they are trying to reach are all listed as belonging to Amazon Cloud within the U.S. It's not clear why these 3 cameras are always trying to call out to specific IP's while the others are only trying to reach the DNS servers.

Z12: IPC-HFW5241E-Z12E
Loryta2: IPC-T5442TM-AS 3.6mm
WiFi Garage: IP2M-841B (Amcrest)
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Is P2P and uPnP disable/turned off in all devices (cams, router) ?
 
Looking at the Z12, the Network/UPnP category has the 'enabled' checkbox unchecked, while the UDP listing below is checked. Should that option be unchecked, too? I am unsure where the P2P is located within the camera.
 

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DLONG2 said:
Looking at the Z12, the Network/UPnP category has the 'enabled' checkbox unchecked,
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That's good and OK.
DLONG2 said:
I am unsure where the P2P is located within the camera.
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Try looking under "Setting"=>"Network" => "Access Platform", there's a tab for "P2P".
 
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TonyR said:
That's good and OK.

Try looking under "Setting"=>"Network" => "Access Platform", there's a tab for "P2P".
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Aha. Found it where you pointed it out. So this P2P is the culprit. Thanks, Tony!
 
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Also I've seen that on some cams/firmware that top Enable box on pages like that doesn't do what you'd expect. You have to go in and uncheck each of the services below; otherwise, they continue to run.

A little ironic too that the Ubiquiti stuff also phones home. Or did at least back when I was running some of their APs and controller.
 
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Remember watching about anything live on TV, where in the background one sees AWS
plastered everywhere? Even the government uses Amazon Web Service.
 
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