Issue with whitelisting ads

Hey team! So I think I’ve found a bug.

I have enabled ad blocking on strict mode / all devices.

I assume the ad blocking rule set lives at the global level. I’ve then created a target list called “whitelist” with various urls (e.g. googleadservices.com) and created allow rules for this at the network level (I have various vlans - so want to allow this whitelist outbound on my LAN but not on my IOT network). The problem is the allow rule doesn’t work. Sites are blocked.

So in my troubleshooting I did some testing and discovered that the allow rule will work when applied to a device “group” or a device but not on a network.

Also if I take the Ad Block off “All Devices” and specify it on the networks themselves then the network level whitelist rule works

This leads me to believe there is a rule precedence issue with ad block when set to “all devices” and the network ruleset.
Given the order is Device > Group > Network > Global I assume the ad block should be “global” and an allow at the network level should work. Perhaps the Ad Block All Devicrs rules are creating a device group level ruleset?

I’m on box 1.9751.

Firewalla

May 27, 2023 02:02

likely you may be hitting this bug https://www.reddit.com/r/firewalla/comments/12b83l7/comment/jfj60b9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Lammiwinks

May 27, 2023 02:40

Thank you! This is it.
I managed to find a workaround. I went into ad block and turned it off for all then set it for my networks only. This fixed the issue.

I then went back and set it back to all and the issue remains fixed so if anyone else is having this issue here’s the fix!

Issue with whitelisting ads

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