Netgate Discussion Forum
    • Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Search
    • Register
    • Login

    Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General pfSense Questions
    77 Posts 7 Posters 8.8k Views 5 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Cool_CoronaC Offline
      Cool_Corona @Gertjan
      last edited by

      @gertjan said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

      @cool_corona

      Only Firefox, or other browsers on the same device show the same behaviour ?

      IPv6 issues ?

      Chrome and IE is the same. Dont use IPv6 as of now.

      H 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • H Offline
        heper @Cool_Corona
        last edited by heper

        @cool_corona i don't have any solution. but please follow up if you find one ... a lot of folks will be interested enable this feature (especially fascist governments and such)

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • stephenw10S Offline
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Something is being blocked or null routed etc. Either an IP or by DNS.

          It will be logged somewhere if you have enough logging enabled.

          You should be able to see exactly what domain or IPs are failing to load when you search.

          Steve

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • johnpozJ Online
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Cool_Corona
            last edited by johnpoz

            @cool_corona said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

            I can visit google.com but search doesnt work. Results dont show.

            How do you think this is a pfsense thing? You understand when you go to google.. Your inside a https tunnel.

            Pfsense has zero idea what your doing in this tunnel.. Pfsense is not stopping you from searching google. It could stop you from getting to google.. But once your there - what you do there is not something pfsense has any control over..

            An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
            If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
            Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
            SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

            Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • Cool_CoronaC Offline
              Cool_Corona @johnpoz
              last edited by

              @johnpoz said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

              @cool_corona said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

              I can visit google.com but search doesnt work. Results dont show.

              How do you think this is a pfsense thing? You understand when you go to google.. Your inside a https tunnel.

              Pfsense has zero idea what your doing in this tunnel.. Pfsense is not stopping you from searching google. It could stop you from getting to google.. But once your there - what you do there is not something pfsense has any control over..

              Thank you. It works when pfsense is not a part of the equation. On a local pc on an ASUS RT-AX88U it works like a charm.

              Switching to pfsense, it does not. Same pc, same settings.

              So you tell me.

              johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • johnpozJ Online
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Cool_Corona
                last edited by

                @cool_corona said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

                On a local pc on an ASUS RT-AX88U it works like a charm.

                Then use that.. Lets go over this again... Pfsense has NO freaking clue what your doing inside a https tunnel.

                Are you doing mitm with pfsense? Are you running proxy? I know for sure your not doing that with your asus router.

                Lets actually see this problem - go to google and search something.. What happens..

                Your IP would be different using your asus router vs pfsense - maybe google is blocking you?

                How would pfsense know that google.com (ipX) intercept internal traffic inside this https via "magic"?? going to google.tld (ipY) don't intercept the search via "magic"

                An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • stephenw10S Offline
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Mmm, it could be Google blocking you. ๐Ÿ˜‰
                  Though they usually throw an error at you when they do that.

                  I imagine it could be some subdomain you are blocking somehow.

                  Steve

                  johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • johnpozJ Online
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
                    last edited by

                    Maybe he is blocking the captcha they would present him in some browser tool?

                    But what he is saying is happening has nothing to do with pfsense.

                    When you go to google.com and search sonething - its inside a tunnel.. You do not get redirected to some other url/IP for the answer to your query.

                    sniff it - what do you see.. You going to ipX.. and then traffic flow..

                    How would pfsense just kill off the search results inside this https tunnel? Sniff show if connection is being reset? Having connectivity issues - lots of retrans? But pfsense isn't going to go inside this https tunnel and say oh your searching - kill this connection..

                    An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                    If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                    Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                    SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • stephenw10S Offline
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      The content of the google search results page does not come only from www.google.com or from one IP. I could certainly imagine it blocking partially.
                      I would expect the page to fail to load correctly before the search results also. But I could imagine it failing like this with the right sub domain blocked. I've never tried. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                      Cool_CoronaC johnpozJ 2 Replies Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                        Cool_Corona @stephenw10
                        last edited by

                        @stephenw10 said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

                        The content of the google search results page does not come only from www.google.com or from one IP. I could certainly imagine it blocking partially.
                        I would expect the page to fail to load correctly before the search results also. But I could imagine it failing like this with the right sub domain blocked. I've never tried. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                        I have no clue since its very odd.

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • johnpozJ Online
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @stephenw10
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          Fire up web developer in firefox.. What is not loading exactly..

                          I agree stuff from your results could be hosted elsewhere - images and stuff.

                          But the overall results are returned via the same tunnel you opened to go to www.google.com

                          Lets see this when you go to google and then search..

                          stuffblocked.png

                          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                          SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
                          • stephenw10S Offline
                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                            last edited by

                            Yup, exactly. Do that ^.
                            It should be pretty obvious what's failing load.

                            Steve

                            Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                              Cool_Corona @stephenw10
                              last edited by

                              @stephenw10

                              I have made a video....

                              Here you go (link)

                              johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • johnpozJ Online
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Cool_Corona
                                last edited by johnpoz

                                So your not going to google at all..

                                That is not what you stated..

                                Can you even resolve www.google.com

                                I can visit google.com but search doesnt work.

                                No your not visiting google.com at all..

                                Try and ping www.google.com, do you even get an IP back?

                                $ ping www.google.com                                                
                                                                                                     
                                Pinging www.google.com [216.58.192.164] with 32 bytes of data:       
                                Reply from 216.58.192.164: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=117                 
                                Reply from 216.58.192.164: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=117                
                                                                                                     
                                

                                An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                                If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                                Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                                SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                                Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                                  Cool_Corona @johnpoz
                                  last edited by

                                  @johnpoz said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

                                  So your not going to google at all..

                                  That is not what you stated..

                                  Can you even resolve www.google.com

                                  I can visit google.com but search doesnt work.

                                  No your not visiting google.com at all..

                                  Try and ping www.google.com, do you even get an IP back?

                                  $ ping www.google.com                                                
                                                                                                       
                                  Pinging www.google.com [216.58.192.164] with 32 bytes of data:       
                                  Reply from 216.58.192.164: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=117                 
                                  Reply from 216.58.192.164: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=117                
                                                                                                       
                                  

                                  I am and its resolvable

                                  02cde652-8294-4588-a13b-01c213b9e22a-billede.png

                                  johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • johnpozJ Online
                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Cool_Corona
                                    last edited by

                                    google.com is not www.google.com

                                    Pinging google.com [216.58.192.206] with 32 bytes of data:
                                    Reply from 216.58.192.206: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=116
                                    
                                    Pinging www.google.com [172.217.164.100] with 32 bytes of data:
                                    Reply from 172.217.164.100: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=111
                                    

                                    Your get in your "video" is for www.google.com

                                    google.png

                                    When fails...

                                    You never WENT to www.google.com - you did a search in firefox browser... You didn't load www.google.com in your browser like I show in my example.

                                    An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                                    If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                                    Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                                    SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                                    Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                                      Cool_Corona @johnpoz
                                      last edited by

                                      @johnpoz said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

                                      google.com is not www.google.com

                                      Pinging google.com [216.58.192.206] with 32 bytes of data:
                                      Reply from 216.58.192.206: bytes=32 time=10ms TTL=116
                                      
                                      Pinging www.google.com [172.217.164.100] with 32 bytes of data:
                                      Reply from 172.217.164.100: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=111
                                      

                                      Your get in your "video" is for www.google.com

                                      google.png

                                      When fails...

                                      You never WENT to www.google.com - you did a search in firefox browser... You didn't load www.google.com in your browser like I show in my example.

                                      1af40004-a8f6-4d6e-b5a7-4a7deb335522-billede.png

                                      The search from FF times out when searching www.google.com. When I visit www.google.com from the browser it works fine.

                                      Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                                        Cool_Corona @Cool_Corona
                                        last edited by

                                        1756c791-ecc8-4696-ab7a-ba76a13e98eb-billede.png

                                        This is what I get when searching from FF on a startpage....

                                        This is what I get if I type www.google.com directly

                                        69a0c07f-b709-4d3d-b388-2438fdcf1aff-billede.png

                                        johnpozJ 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • johnpozJ Online
                                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @Cool_Corona
                                          last edited by johnpoz

                                          Where is that working - I see a get.. I don't see the OK (200) response. Where is the rest of what that would show if you actually went there and pulled data.. Again see my example.

                                          I want nothing more than to help you figure out what the problem is.. But I fail to understand why this has to be like pulling teeth with a pair of chopsticks..

                                          Here is a simple test.. do a fetch www.google.com from pfsense. Look what you get..

                                          fetch.png

                                          Then do the same test from something behind pfsense.. If pfsense works but your machine is not..

                                          An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
                                          If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
                                          Please don't Chat/PM me for help, unless mod related
                                          SG-4860 24.11 | Lab VMs 2.8, 24.11

                                          Cool_CoronaC 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • Cool_CoronaC Offline
                                            Cool_Corona @johnpoz
                                            last edited by

                                            @johnpoz said in Google.com blocked but local google domains are not....:

                                            Where is that working - I see a get.. I don't see the OK (200) response. Where is the rest of what that would show if you actually went there and pulled data.. Again see my example.

                                            I want nothing more than to help you figure out what the problem is.. But I fail to understand why this has to be like pulling teeth with a pair of chopsticks..

                                            Here is a simple test.. do a fetch www.google.com from pfsense. Look what you get..

                                            fetch.png

                                            I know but I dont get anymore than that as a reply and then it times out.

                                            Looking a local google domains, its not a problem

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • First post
                                              Last post
                                            Copyright 2025 Rubicon Communications LLC (Netgate). All rights reserved.