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jorgsmash

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A couple weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Epic Games launcher and Rocket League. I didn't have any issues installing the game or launching or playing it. Fast-forward to yesterday, and the game wouldn't launch. I started diagnosing by uninstalling the game, but then Epic Games launcher wouldn't re-install it. It would just sit there and do nothing. So I uninstalled and re-installed Epic Games launcher. Still nothing. Game wouldn't install. Luckily today I got an error in the Epic Games launcher that it couldn't communicate with their servers. So I checked the Diversion blocking log, just for the IP of my computer. I saw that Diversion was blocking eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com. Disabling Diversion allowed the game to install.

Next, I tried to confirm that this domain was in the blocklist/blacklists by doing a search for it. I went to the blocking list options and used option 5. Find domain in hosts file(s).

I searched for just 'epicgames.com' and the full domain, and both returned nothing. I thought that was strange. Why would it block that domain if it's not on a blocklist? I added it to my whitelist and got a message when I did so, stating that the domain wasn't found on any block/blacklists, and it would be a "forced entry."

Any ideas why Diversion is acting strangely? Is there an alternative method for searching for a domain that is being blocked by Diversion? Currently I am using the 'Large' list.
 
Diversion isn't acting strange. The 'Large list' is.
 
Is it not strange that Diversion was blocking a domain but couldn't find it in any blocklist I was using? I will switch to the Medium list.
 
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Here you go:

Code:
@RT-AX88U-F610:/tmp/home/root# grep -E "\/opt\/share\/diversion\/.*epicgames
\.com" /opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log*
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:01:52 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:03:03 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:04:15 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:05:43 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:06:59 dnsmasq[7402]: 4 192.168.50.10/56502 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:06:59 dnsmasq[7402]: 16 192.168.50.10/1523 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:06:59 dnsmasq[7402]: 20 192.168.50.10/56502 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:06:59 dnsmasq[7402]: 30 192.168.50.10/56502 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:06:59 dnsmasq[7402]: 33 192.168.50.10/1523 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:08:05 dnsmasq[7402]: 97 192.168.50.10/52974 /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:09:17 dnsmasq[3123]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log1:Jun 30 15:21:07 dnsmasq[23734]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:44:10 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:45:10 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:46:09 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:47:21 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:49:40 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:50:47 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:51:50 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:52:31 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:53:43 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:54:31 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:55:43 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:57:45 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:58:47 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 19:59:56 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 20:00:55 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 22:50:31 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 22:51:34 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 22:52:34 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
/opt/var/log/dnsmasq.log2:Jun 29 22:53:46 dnsmasq[15351]: /opt/share/diversion/list/blockinglist eulatracking-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com is 192.168.50.2
 

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