ROKU Issues with pfBlockerNG (CBS All Access, PBS, CNET) not working

Xentrk · Sep 10, 2017, 1:08 PM

@reisender:

Your host override isn't quite right. Make it look like the attached image. Keep the domains in your whitelist. I kept the whitelist for both domains. I'm not sure if DNSBL or the host override is processed first, but it seems to work this way.

reisender,

Is CBS all access still working for you? It stopped working for me last night. When I select a video to watch, I get a little spinning symbol for a few seconds followed by a black screen. I can watch live TV okay. It is just the on demand videos that are the issue. It works okay on my ASUS router using AB-Solution.info ad blocker. But I do see ads. Maybe it is time to pay the extra $$ for the ad free version.

I have it working again. I was unable to determine the domain or host file causing the issues. I did some testing with hosts file on my ASUS router using AB-Solution. I had issues when I went to higher levels of hosts files. I found the right combination that made it work on the ASUS. I replicated that on the pfSense. I started with this list:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://www.malekal.com/HOSTS_filtre/HOSTS.txt
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=hostfile
http://www.hostsfile.org/Downloads/hosts.txt
http://www.securemecca.com/Downloads/hosts.txt
http://hosts-file.net/exp.txt
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
http://hosts-file.net/emd.txt
http://hosts-file.net/hjk.txt
http://hosts-file.net/fsa.txt
http://hosts-file.net/grm.txt
http://hosts-file.net/psh.txt
http://hosts-file.net/mmt.txt
http://hosts-file.net/hfs.txt
http://hosts-file.net/pha.txt
http://hosts-file.net/wrz.txt
http://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaeltrimm/hosts-blocking/master/_hosts.txt

And narrowed it down to this list

https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext&useip=0.0.0.0
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
http://hosts-file.net/emd.txt
http://hosts-file.net/grm.txt
http://hosts-file.net/mmt.txt

Perhaps one of these days, I will take some the hosts files back in one by one until I determine which one caused me the grief.

Xentrk · Sep 15, 2017, 2:41 PM

The above solution was a false positive. It did not work. I ended up removing the Host Overrides in DNS Resolver to get it working. However, ads are now appearing. We'll, I am paying for the lower tier with ads. So I can live with it. Enjoying it ad free was nice while it lasted though.