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Advanced-Security-Block Sites feature not working after firmware update V1.2.0.76_1.0.1
Product: Nighthawk AC1750 router I was able to block sites successfully before installing the firmware V1.2.0.76_1.0.1 update. After doing this firmware update and in trying to block websites using...
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DarrenM
Thanks for your suggestion, I appreciate it! I'm a beginner using this 'block sites' feature, I'm using it in order to prevent my son from accessing the following messaging website on his school laptop: https://discord.com/
Other words/sites I've inputted to block are 'www.discord.com' and 'discord.com', these don't result in the '403 forbidden' error message. Only 'https://discord.com' results in the '403 forbidden' error message. But now with 'www.discord.com' and 'discord.com' in my 'block sites' list, my son can still access the discord.com messaging website.
Before the firmware update, I had no problems in blocking discord.com, even with inputting 'https://discord.com'.
Any other suggestions or what I need to learn will be much appreciated, thanks!
Did anyone get a resolution on this? I have the same behavior after upgrading firmware V1.2.0.76_1.0.1. See screen shot. It's very frustrating. I tried clearing cache/cookies/etc. Even tried on my secondary PC to no avail.
I am having the exact same issue and tried in EDGE and Chrome, cleared cookies and cache. No luck. Has anyone had any luck solving.
Has anyone tried a factory reset to see if this issues is still happening after the reset?
DarrenM
I will look into this issue,
DarrenM
I'm curious as if there's been any solution to this issue. I'm having the exact same problem after the firmware update. After entering any keyword and hitting "apply," I receive the "403 forbidden" error.
I have recently performed a factory reset, but the issue persists.
Thank you.
dpeng1124 wrote:Other words/sites I've inputted to block are 'www.discord.com' and 'discord.com', these don't result in the '403 forbidden' error message. Only 'https://discord.com' results in the '403 forbidden' error message. But now with 'www.discord.com' and 'discord.com' in my 'block sites' list, my son can still access the discord.com messaging website.
There are two points here:
- The input parsing on the Netgear Genie Web UI is buggy and does return 403 exactly under this condition. Other variants like https://discord.com/ can be (falsely, see below) added. A bug as old as the UI is... 10 or 15 years at least..
- The Block Sites (by URL or keywords) can't work on https by specification and by design on these routers.
In my opinion, the feature MUST either be removed, or SHOULD be enhanced so it does work at lest with the (slowly going away) capturing of the DNS queries (as implemented for example on the Netgear business WAC5xx/WAX6xx) for the time being (before secured DNS will become standard).
Reporting this issue and limitation for years, many community moderators and admins have seen this. none of our feedback has made it to a feature change. Netgear does continue to implement the same ******* on newer router models. And many more innocent Netgear customers will try, fail, and ask the community. YeZ this one of many reasons why some Netgear teams don't like to work with me: They simply don't do their jobs - or simply don't understand that the majority of Web sites and mobile App backend communication is done in https - and the simple design from 1995 does no longer match the requirements from the 21st century.
