Firewalla and GitHub

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Rom

• September 04, 2018 01:02

Hello, 

I have Pi-Hole on the same network and I am getting significant traffic/pings from Firewalla (RED) to GitHub. Is there a way to limit this, or at least have it triggered manually?

Thanks.

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  Firewalla

  • September 04, 2018 01:08

  Firewalla's main code is hosted https://github.com/firewalla/firewalla, that's why you get github traffic.  What you see from pihole is likely DNS requests to resolve github.com, should be harmless.  

  Firewalla code is open source, this is the reason for 'what you see on github is what you are running ...'   pretty cool eh?

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  Rom

  • September 04, 2018 01:22

  Yes, I understand that it is open source. Just couldn't understand the need to ping it every second. Short of digging deeper into the code, does blocking GitHub DNS queries render Firewalla completely useless (unblocking it for firmware updates)? 

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  Firewalla

  • September 04, 2018 01:24

  It shouldn't be every second, we will take a look.   The DNS services should cache this already.   Blocking the github service may cause other problems, other pieces of code (beyond ours) may use it. 

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  Firewalla

  • September 04, 2018 01:55

  Rom

  Try this, go to devices -> tap on pihole devices -> disable monitoring on it.

  The problem is likely a DNS query problem, where Firewalla intercept the query send to pihole and pihole queries again and get intercept again by Firewalla.

  Try disable monitoring on pihole, this may solve the problem.

   

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  Rom

  • September 04, 2018 02:48

  The Pi-Hole is not on the list. What I did was to disable monitoring for Firewalla device. 

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  Rom

  • September 04, 2018 02:52

  My mistake - the Pi-Hole is on my RPi, which is on the list. I will observe and see what happens after turning off the monitoring.

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  Firewalla

  • September 04, 2018 03:13

  Cool, we are curious as well.  

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