Disable Bond SSID?

BOND Setup and Hardware
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I have seen a few posts about this, but they are from < 2022. I have a Bond Bridge (Hockey Puck) that is setup in a local only VLAN with no internet access. It is attempting to hit DNS about once per hour, as well as broadcasting a config SSID.

I thought this was addressed based on those older posts, but I still see this behavior with v4.12.1-beta firmware. How can I stop this SSID broadcast? How can I stop the DNS pings?

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In all your forum reading, did you run across this post?

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I tried disabling MQTT but it didn’t impact the broadcast of the config SSID, nor its attempts to hit the outside internet about every 5 minutes.

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This is from the MQTT endpoint. It shows disabled.
v2/api/mqtt

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
BOND-Flags: 4
Content-Length: 152
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{"host":"","port":0,"server_cert_check":false,"enabled":false,"cert_set":false,"key_set":false,"server_cert_set":false,"_":"d4dc887f","__":"d4dc887f"}

The watchdog is not disabled, but reading that post, it doesn’t sounds like it shouldn’t be necessary with MQTT disabled.
v2/sys/wifi/watchdog

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
BOND-Flags: 4
Content-Length: 78
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{"rwdg_disable":false,"rwdg_timer_ms":180000,"_":"a15c5dd7","__":"a15c5dd7"}
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I tried disabling the watchdog as well. Still no joy.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
BOND-Flags: 4
Content-Length: 77
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{"rwdg_disable":true,"rwdg_timer_ms":180000,"_":"0a7d310a","__":"0a7d310a"}
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Thanks for trying those steps.
I haven’t ever gone down that path personally, just watched the other community members try it out.

Hopefully someone from the Bond staff will come through soon.

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7

Interesting change today. I noticed that the SSID is no longer broadcasting under its config name. It is still broadcasting, but is now a hidden SSID. I can still match it’s MAC address, so I know it is the same one.

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I don’t think this ever got addressed. Still happens to mine too.