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Manny Cavalier

• December 17, 2021 06:34

How can you override URLs/sites that are listed under "Blocked Flows" and tagged as blocked via DNS?  I already tried to disable Ad block but there's no difference.  If I run the diagnostics on those URLs under the "Why is it blocked" button, the result will say "No Rules".  This means that this particular URL is not on my blocked list rules.

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  mozarella

  • December 17, 2021 10:29

  My first thought is: are you using family protect?

  If yes, family protect is using opendns for families which is filtering. So firewalla does not filter sth at this point, because the external dns will not answer if the content is not suitable with family protect.

  you can try disable family protect to check if it solves the problem.

  If you don't use family protect, what are your upstream dns servers? Maybe sth is filtered / blocked there?

   

  I was using (and still using) pi-hole before setting up firewalla. So ads are filtered in my network there and i don't use family protect or ad blocking

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  Manny Cavalier

  • December 17, 2021 11:13
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  My Family Protect is off.  I don't think it's my upstream DNS because if I connect directly to my upstream's modem/router, I don't have any issues accessing any sites.

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  Firewalla

  • December 17, 2021 19:40

  Check if the DNS "blocked" exist or not. The system can't distinguish an invalid (or private DNS) vs. one that's blocked. 

  For example, you take your work machine home and not VPN back to work, you will see a bunch of DNS request as blocked, and these DNS are usually enterprise DNS 

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