

My company is absolutely taking advantage of the H1Bs. They just did a huge round of “move to head quarters and take a pay cut or leave with severance”. Anecdotal, but it seemed to mostly target H1Bs. Every single one I know said they basically have to or return home because they don’t know if the government will even function to processes new sponsorships if they found one.
Are you using your router as DNS and DHCP? With Verizon I had a security setting that was blocking public DNS entries to resolving to local addresses. I can’t remember what it’s called, but it’s to prevent a certain type of attack. For a while I disabled it but switching to pihole as DNS, DHCP and using unbound solves it without the security implications