search

chrisjudk / hosts

I use this host file on a raspberry pi using the pi-hole open-source, dns-based ad blocker.
https://pi-hole.net/
MIT License
2 stars 2 forks source link

www.msn.com #9

Closed p1r473 closed 4 years ago

p1r473 commented 4 years ago

What URL(s) a-0003.a-msedge.net

Affected service MSN

Expected behavior www.msn.com is a news site

Additional context This is a CNAME for www.msn.com That means if you're using deep packet inspection for blocking, MSN will be blocked

chrisjudk commented 4 years ago

URL(s): www.msn.com (cname for www-msn-com.a-0003.a-msedge.net) www-msn-com.a-0003.a-msedge.net

chrisjudk commented 4 years ago

Addressed in d5bea28d512f6cb185b7d6f2072e0fb5f72e76cd

Categorized in 7d4dd7b20148a33e285c4cb38301f42d29a5a47d

pihole script updated in e43a92fd6824acbce7b1f45b4f2fcd54175c4a4b

chrisjudk commented 4 years ago

@p1r473 Try loading the whitelist when you get a chance. I believe those two domains are all that needed to be whitelisted to get www.msn.com working.

p1r473 commented 4 years ago

So I have deep cname inspection enabled, so anything that is a CNAME for msn.com will also block msn.com.

a-0003.a-msedge.net is a CNAME for msn.com so while it's blocked it won't load

I recommend removing a-0003.a-msedge.net too in case other people use your list and also have deep CNAME inspection on in their adblocker.

I've whitelisted a-0003.a-msedge.net locally but still recommend to remove it

chrisjudk commented 4 years ago

@p1r473 I'm seeing claims that that specific domain name is used for windows 10 data collection barracudanetworks, dslreport