Recent content by Whit Wye

No. My home configuration is ISP Router - > Firewall/DNS -> Several servers and workstations and also the Synology. The Synology is between wifi-connected systems and the Net. On wifi we have myself (when on a laptop rather than the servers and workstation), my wife, and my kid. I only want to...

I've never used my ISP's DNS. I run my own. In my day job I'm a network engineer. Some routers do use the dnsmasq utility -- which is running on Synology -- to handle the translation of the Youtube addresses to their Restricted version. I suspect Synlogy does too. But I haven't worked out where...

You misunderstand. This is not about blocking Youtube. It is about having Youtube refuse to provide access to leave comments, and to view some videos it categorizes as Restricted. This, as I and other users of Synology routers have seen, happens if any level of protection is set, and happens...

Yes. Of course. That's what I responded to. Did you read my response?

I should have mentioned that putting youtube.com in the excluded sites list does not fix this problem. It's not that Youtube is being blocked; it's that it's being translated to a different URL that lands a person on the Restricted Mode version of Youtube's site. It's arguably a bug that the...

Just got a Synology 2600, which is a decent device once the software is brought up to date (was a bit flakey out of the box). My only big complaint is they've set it up so that if Parental Controls are on for a device at all, it puts Youtube into restricted mode. Probably using dnsmasq for that...