Skynet ASN Banning

[Remember The Fallen]

Greetings!

I'm running the latest version of Skynet (7.4.6) on my Asus RT-AX86U with Merlin firmware version 3004.388.4 (latest).

Some features of Skynet seem to work correctly while others do not or offer mixed/wonky results. The "ban" section, I believe it's #2 in the pick list where users can manually add entries by IP, IP range, domain and ASN doesn't work for me.

Example: I want to block YouTube.com and all of its registered sub-domains from my network. When I try adding the ASN (15169) into Skynet I get the following message "THIS ENTRY IS INVALID"

I'm not even sure the format i'm using to add the ASN - ASxxxxx - is correct?

I want to do the same for TikTok, Facebook and a few other popular domains.

Adding by domain name or IP lists found on GitHub don't work either.

The URL filter within Merlin is basically outdated and useless because it doesn't block https:// I don't know of many sites still using just http:// these days. The sites I want to block certainly don't. The filtering list is capped at 64 entries anyway

As far as I know, Skynet currently doesn't offer any type of content filtering.

Any helpful thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Remember The Fallen]

I just read in one of the other forum posts that by adding "lge.com" to the URL filter within Merlin might help me achieve the results i'm looking for.

I did that and then did some testing. I still can browse to sites like YouTube, FB and Playboy.com (this site supposedly was blocked according to the thread I referenced but not for me )

 

[ColinTaylor]

The URL filter within Merlin is basically outdated and useless because it doesn't block https:// I don't know of many sites still using just http:// these days. The sites I want to block certainly don't.

That's not quite true because it also blocks DNS lookups for those domains which in turn would effect https. But your client needs to be using the router as its DNS.

I just read in one of the other forum posts that by adding "lge.com" to the URL filter within Merlin might help me achieve the results i'm looking for.

That was for an LG TV issue. Are you using an LG TV?

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

That's not quite true because it also blocks DNS lookups for those domains which in turn would effect https. But your client needs to be using the router as its DNS.


That was for an LG TV issue. Are you using an LG TV?

@ColinTaylor I also want to point out another known fact. While I do not know if this is the case for the OP, Skynet only ip blocks over ipv4. If users have ipv6 enabled on their router, it doesn't matter if you ASN block, or not since it only would be working over ipv4. Users could still freely access the IPV6 side of this ASN world they are trying to block. If the OP expects their ASN blocking to work 100%, I recommend turning off ipv6 if it is turned on.