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Mbutler522010
Mbutler522010
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November 22, 2016
Question

blocking and not blocking, website confusion

  • November 22, 2016
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I am really trying to understand what I see in the logs. The screenshot shows a highlighted line (8:32:51) where a user attempting to get to "216.58.193.110" and then in parenthesis it says "connectivitycheck.android.com"

 

The attempt is blocked and the filter details say it was actually URL "play.google.com/"

 

Then 4 seconds later (8:32:55) it shows the exact same entry, but this time it is allowed and the webfilter says the URL was "clients5.google.com/"

 

How am I supposed to know what is going on?

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    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    November 22, 2016

    Doing a bit of legwork, 216.58.217.110 resolves to iad23s42-in-f110.1e100.net. From that alone, I would guess that this is a data storage/download server site that hosts multiple aliases. One of those aliases is connectivitycheck.android.com. I would also wager a guess that the other URL is disallowed from that same IP address by DNS name, but the IP is allowed.

    Mbutler522010
    Mbutler522010Author
    New Member
    November 22, 2016

    Thanks Bob!

    that sure makes it difficult to figure out what is going on though

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