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      etaggart
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      I'm having trouble with Squidguard blocking Netflix from Roku clients.  I've whitelisted netflix.com and nflxvideo.net but it's still getting blocked?  Blocked message in log is below:

      29.01.2018 22:10:19 192.168.1.51/roku.taggarthome.com http://23.246.6.210/?o=AQFcbeCGEjLIyGQFesK3rUjJvp_c-gwUBCQIhY_FnNLJMsMNjgKWibgzPRtxj2iA5p9UKnsS84xHqIOrr7yfFYUtv8NSCLe03UfX3n3G7eMBKwqnnL_uQXRXBzbc-ODez48eVCwsoNaMrxlZUxM_A-FkbVFY6rlDtEWW9IlUSVu3NWhvL2CXzJJams3Hki7fygDVcKw&v=3&e=1517325017&t=h0anJZHDX_hho-dreD4WlTZM0GA#ebr=0+29443&s=1 Request(default/in-addr/-) - GET REDIRECT

      Stumped…

      Thanks for any help pointing me in the right direction.

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        user12345
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        Where did you whitelist and how?  I had the same problem but had to do a very specific set of steps to get past it.

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          etaggart
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          I have a whitelist defined in squidguard, but I suspect the ROKU netflix client is not using he netflix dns names, but IP addresses.  How did you get past it?

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            etaggart
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            That's what it was.  The Roku netflix client wasn't using the domain name, but IP addresses for the Netflix servers.  I guess I should have realized that in the log.  Even though I had the option "Do not allow IP-Addresses in URL" unchecked, I was looked at the squidguard config at /usr/local/etc/SquidGuard/SquidGuard.conf and saw that it had !in-addr which was blocking anything that had an IP address in the URL.  Seems to be working fine now after I removed that.

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