HBOMax on Roku Devices

[Senorfluff]

Hello all
HBOMax channel on Roku devices never worked, and would give me a notice about being unable to authenticate my device.  Drove me crazy, because all the other channels worked fine.  Took me a long time to think to check the blocked logs on Zenarmor!  When I found that it was blocking as "undecided safe access":

hbomax-52-20.youidomain2.com
52.23.129.248

Whitelisted it... works perfectly
So, maybe I'm just slow to realize this.  But seemed like I should at least put this out there!

Thanks for making this software available so effortlessly through OPNsense.  I'm a big fan.

[sy]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. The site will be re-categorized and published to the cloud servers.

[Senorfluff]

You rock sy!
since this post, I've found that the domain name changes slightly, requiring me to whitelist twice again.'
The domains that have since been used:

hbomax-52-25-1.youidomain2.com
hbomax-52-25.youidomain2.com

Is there a way to whitelist something like... hbomax-*.youidomain2.com?

Thanks again for the phenomenal product that the ease of use through opnsense!

[Senorfluff]

Hello again

I'll say again how happy I've been with zenarmor and opnsense as a whole, and so grateful for the outstanding community here!

It's been a while, and I have still needed to periodically whitelist various hbomax related sites.  The following have all been added over time:

hbomax-52-20.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-52-25-1.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-52-25.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-52-35.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-52-40.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-52-45.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-a001.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-v52-55.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-v53-05.youidomain2.com       
hbomax-v53-10.youidomain2.com

would it work for me to whitelist "youidomain2.com"?

I wouldn't care too much except that my parents live with us and he feels bad always bothering me to "fix hbomax"  :o

[beki]

Hi Senorfluff,

Yes, Defining a whitelist for "youidomain2.com" should solve your issue.

https://www.zenarmor.com/docs/opnsense/policies/exclusions#defining-blacklists-and-whitelists