DNSBL doesn't block search engine links

scramm · Apr 9, 2017, 5:16 PM

I have a custom list in DNSBL that contains a few websites. If I type xxxx.com(any blocked domain on the list) into a browser, it get's correctly pointed to 10.10.10.1 and shows a 1x1 blank image. However, if I go to a search engine, search for xxxx, then click on a link for xxxx.com, the site loads with no issues.

I have the unbound DNS resolver set up, and a firewall rule to block all outgoing DNS traffic.

Can anyone help me figure out what might be going wrong here?

BBcan177 · Apr 10, 2017, 3:28 PM

Did you enable the "TLD" option? Without TLD, only the listed domain/sub-domain is blocked…

So without TLD:

example.com will be blocked
sub.example.com will not be blocked

With TLD:

All sub-domains are blocked.

scramm · Apr 12, 2017, 2:42 PM

@BBcan177:

Did you enable the "TLD" option? Without TLD, only the listed domain/sub-domain is blocked…

So without TLD:

example.com will be blocked
sub.example.com will not be blocked

With TLD:

All sub-domains are blocked.

Thanks! I figured I was missing something simple ::) the search result link was going through because it had a "www." on the front. Enabling TLD fixed it.