forms.gle is blocked when blocking "All Gaming Sites"

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EasterlyDrake13

• April 05, 2020 02:05

Hi Firewalla Team,

Looks like forms.gle is being blocked when blocking "All Gaming Sites". *.gle appears to be a Google owned TLD and forms.gle is being used as a shortner for Google Education(?) links.

Given that a number of children are now studying remotely from home using Google Education due to the Coronavirus pandemic, this is impacting my childs ability to access certain links when requested by their school and teachers.

I have also double checked the "All Gaming Sites" automatically populated domain list and do not see forms.gle or *.gle listed there so am unable to remove this manually.

It would be great if you guys can help take a look at this and see if it should be removed as a gaming site, and +1 to the whitelist feature which should address similar issues going forward.

Thank you.

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  Tim Casey Ny

  • September 23, 2020 03:11

  I found this same fault.  I had chosen "Block; All Gaming Sites; Always; on my network with School tablets".  Since my kids' school is using the Google Classroom platform, I made other Allow rules for the other Google domains that they use; Classroom.Google.com, Drive.Google.com, Docs.Google.com, Forms.Google.com.  When the kids try to log in, using the Google Chrome web browser, to the Drive.Google.com domain they get an error message ""took too long to respond".  Also, the Forms domain doesn't connect.  When I PAUSE the rule "Block All Gaming Sites" and then refresh the browser window with the address Drive.Google.com, the connection is made.

  Question:

  1)  What is included in the overall rule "Block; All Gaming Sites; Always" that doesn't get Allowed by the rule "Allow; Drive.Google.com; Always"? 

  2)  Where is the list of the sites included in the "All Gaming Sites" rule?  Can this be edited?

  3)  How does the domain, Drive.Google.com, respond to an http request so that it appears as if it were a Gaming Site?

  I would have thought my Allow rule for the entire domain, Drive.Google.com, would override the Block rule for "All Gaming Sites".

  Thanks.  Tim

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