Duo 2 PoE connecting to 20.231.199.129 every 10 minutes

[swrobel]

UPDATE: I disabled UID and these network requests stopped.

What is this IP and why is my camera connecting to it every 10 minutes? I have this camera connected to a PoE switch, but I only want to use it with my NVR. Is there a way to prevent it from contacting the internet at all?

[joseph_1979]

@swrobel Yes, this is the heartbeat packet sent by the camera to the P2P server (from the received packet the P2P server gets the private IP of the camera and the public IP/port assigned to the camera (NAT) on your BB router). In your case the P2P service is provided by Azure (MS).

This is required by Reolink client to establish communication with the camera from an external network.

You can deny it by a fw rule on your router.