D-link Wireless-G Router Year Issue (Y2K-plus-13)
We have received a report from Melvin indicating that he discovered an issue with a D-Link WBR-1310 Version D Release 4.13 router "expired" when a computer could no longer get a new lease from the router. According to D-Link's website, this router would no longer be supported after January 2012 and the year reset to 2002 (valid year is 2002-2012). The D-link router needs to be a DHCP-client to the ISP's DHCP-server. If you are still using this model, when the DHCP lease expires, your router will no longer be serving the correct date and will need to be replaced. DD-WRT isn't an option because this model isn't supported. If you have already already encountered this issue, let us know via our contact page.
[1] http://www.dd-wrt.ca/site/support/router-database
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot edu
Comments
Also I believe you meant to post "this router would no longer be supported after January 2013..." not 2012. But the page I see says support ended 8/1/2012. http://www.dlink.com/us/en/support/product/wbr-1310-wireless-g-router
Alan
Jan 6th 2013
1 decade ago
AndrewB
Jan 7th 2013
1 decade ago
We are not aware (and have not received other reports) of other router experiencing this issue.
Guy
Jan 7th 2013
1 decade ago
Is '8/1/2012' the 8th of January, or the 1st of August ??? Where's my Mayan calendar? :-)
Melvin
Jan 8th 2013
1 decade ago
The latest (3.53) firmware: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Gateway/di604_revE1/Firmware/
corrects the problem, but with a "twist": set the date "manually" to '2011' (the maximum value listed in the pull-down)
and 'Apply' the change, and let the router restart. Then, with the same pull-down, you can set the year to '2012' to '2022', or can use 'Set using your computer time'.
Melvin
Dec 9th 2013
1 decade ago
Updating the firmware on the 'A' version extended the range of valid years to '2019' -- not too far away!
Updating the firmware on the 'B' version extended the range of valid years to '2039'.
It is shameful that a modern "Wireless N" router will fail after 2019. Such units will still be deployed in many homes in 2020.
Melvin
Apr 17th 2015
9 years ago