Web server hosted on ESP8266 is not responding when it is not connected to home wifi

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Basic Infos

ESP hosted web server is not responding when ESP is not connected to home wifi.

Hardware

Hardware: ESP-1
Core Version: ?2.1.0-rc2?

Description

Problem description
I am trying to build a basic app in which multiple ESPs will request their status to 1 ESP (like STAR schema). below are two kind of ESPs in my project:

1. ESP monitor: AP_STA + hosted web server + sends HTTP post to internet for sync itself

2. ESP clients : Connected via ESP Monitor n/w+ Send HTTP GET request to ESP monitor.

it is working perfectly fine when ESP monitor is got connected to my home WIFI. But if i switched off my home WIFI, ESP clients are not getting any response from ESP Monitor while clients are able to connect to ESP Monitor n/w.

Settings in IDE

Module: Generic ESP8266 Module
CPU Frequency: 80Mhz

Sketch

include <ESP8266WiFi.h>

include <ESP8266WebServer.h>

include <ESP8266WiFiMulti.h>

include <ESP8266HTTPClient.h>

include <Arduino.h>

include <EEPROM.h>

void setup(void){
Serial.begin(115200);
EEPROM.begin(4096);
WiFi.mode(WIFI_AP_STA);
WiFi.softAP("ESP_LAN", "12345678");
WiFi.config(ip, gateway, subnet);
server.on("/", handleRoot);
server.on("/AppCMD",AppCMD);
server.on("/ServeMe", ServeMe);
server.onNotFound(handleNotFound);
server.begin();
Serial.println("HTTP server started");
WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
Serial.println(MONITOR_REQ_STR);
// Wait for connection
int k=0;
while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED && k<5) {
delay(500);
Serial.print(".");
k++;
}
Serial.println("");
Serial.print("Connected to ");
Serial.println(ssid);
Serial.print("IP address: ");

Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());

EEPROM.get(0,Tot_Recs);

if(Tot_Recs==0||Tot_Recs==255)
{
Serial.println("Init Started");
inIt();
}
else
{ Serial.println("Restarted");
ReStart();
}

}

void loop(void){
server.handleClient();
}

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Duplicate of #1661