# Disable Bond SSID?

**URL:** <https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288>\
**Category:** BOND Setup and Hardware\
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288 "2025-02-09T14:32:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![vaulter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vaulter](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/vaulter)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/1 "2025-02-09T14:32:10Z")

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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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**Author:** ![residualimages](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/residualimages/32/74_2.png) [@residualimages](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/residualimages)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/2 "2025-02-09T14:36:08Z")

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In all your forum reading, did you run across [this post](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/watchdog-api-endpoint-and-running-locally/2867/36)?

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**Author:** ![vaulter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vaulter](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/vaulter)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/3 "2025-02-10T20:00:21Z")

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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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**Author:** ![vaulter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vaulter](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/vaulter)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/4 "2025-02-10T20:23:12Z")

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

```auto
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`

```auto
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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**Author:** ![vaulter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vaulter](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/vaulter)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/5 "2025-02-10T21:18:08Z")

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I tried disabling the watchdog as well. Still no joy.

```auto
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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**Author:** ![residualimages](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.bondhome.io/residualimages/32/74_2.png) [@residualimages](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/residualimages)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/6 "2025-02-11T22:55:42Z")

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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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**Author:** ![vaulter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ab992/32.png) [@vaulter](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/vaulter)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/7 "2025-02-11T23:07:30Z")

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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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**Author:** ![sddawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@sddawson](https://forum.bondhome.io/u/sddawson)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.bondhome.io/t/disable-bond-ssid/5288/8 "2025-02-16T11:10:02Z")

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