05 April 2020

Analysis of Xiaomi YI camera connections

I have Xiaomi YI (YHS-113) camera at home and once I was wondering what servers does it connects to and what information it transmits. I had caught camera traffic on my router while it was booting and working.

Analysis revealed the following:
  1. Camera tried to connect to more than 20 servers.
  2. A part of connection is TCP, and other part is UDP.
  3. Not all connections were established (a part of servers didn't answer).
  4. Most of servers are in China, but several servers are in Amazon Cloud.
  5. Camera transfers to the "log.xiaoyi.com" server information about settings and WiFi name & ssid (see below).
  6. Camera checks is your router is Xiaomi Router or not.
  7. Connection to the "api.xiaoyi.com" server is secured by HTTPS with TLS 1.2.

04 April 2020

Windows 10 - Error 30800 / The server name cannot be resolved / SMB & NetBIOS issue

Can not connect to a network drive/shared folder?

Can not print any document on a network printer?

Error #30800 in the Event Log (Application and Services Logs - Microsoft - Windows - SMBClient - Connectivity)?
The server name cannot be resolved.
Error: The requested interface is not supported.
Server name: x.x.x.x
Guidance:
The client cannot resolve the server address in DNS or WINS. This issue often manifests immediately after joining a computer to the domain, when the client's DNS registration may not yet have propagated to all DNS servers. You should also expect this event at system startup on a DNS server (such as a domain controller) that points to itself for the primary DNS. You should validate the DNS client settings on this computer using IPCONFIG /ALL and NSLOOKUP.