Commonly Whitelisted Domains

FAQs
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Click the edit button at the bottom of the post.

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Not sure if this is where I need to add this but vudu needs apicache.vudu.com whitelisted in order to work

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I was able to get CNN videos to load using data.cnn.com. I now have the following for CNN: www.cnn.com, cnn.com, cdn.cnn.com and data.cnn.com.
I found this by watching the Query Log when attempting to watch a video.

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A couple things:
for xbox live messages to work, I had to whitelist:
client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com
For 'messages for web' to display a qr code I had to whitelist:
www.google-analytics.com
There were a couple others I whitelisted to get the qr code to appear but this one actually worked after the whitelist.

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Just in case anyone else ran into Twitter embeds not working in Google News for iOS, whitelisting cdn.syndication.twimg.com worked for me.

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Scratch Editor
Symptom: Crash of the Editor/"Non supported navigator" message.
pihole -w www.google-analytics.com

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As of last week Live Achievements stopped updating and v20.events.data.microsoft.com is being blocked in the Pi-hole logs. Adding this to the whitelist restored Live Achievements updates.

pihole -w v20.events.data.microsoft.com

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I was unable to load google maps data (photos, maps, locations, location info, etc) until reaching a timeout (15-20 seconds) without unblocking app-measurement.com

Anyone else?

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Access to OneDrive from within Office365 apps

A login loop was resulting from accessing OneDrive from within Office365 apps continually asking for Microsoft username and password. This seems to be resolved via whitelisting login.microsoftonline.com . Please also see this Reddit post:
Microsoft Office 365 Blocked : Pihole

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Facebook on iOS needs b-graph.facebook.com whitelisted in order to login to the app. Editing post to add this entry now.

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Twitch Client
Wont Work Unless you Whitelist and it can be more didn't Test that much
From what i can tell this was implemented on the last version of Twitch Client

pihole -w s.amazon-adsystem.com
pihole -w c.amazon-adsystem.com
pihole -w countess.twitch.tv
pihole -w pubsub-edge.twitch.tv
pihole -w cdn-gl.imrworldwide.com
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Apple Music streaming tracks not playing with (s.mzstatic.com) blocked.

Only realised when removing the SIM card out of my daughters iPhone her music stopped working with error ā€œcould not connect to serverā€

If you allow Apple Music to use mobile data, even when in wifi mode; if it canā€™t connect that way it will automatically fall back to mobile data.

So yeah we all allow mobile data, so never realised. Will now add to wiki.

Cheers.

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I'm blocked from using Zelle within Citibank online. I see these logs, how do I whitelist these *.online-metrix.net?

Apr  1 21:33:05 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] h-online.citi.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:05 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded h-online.citi.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:33:05 dnsmasq[16398]: reply h-online.citi.online-metrix.net is 192.225.159.21
Apr  1 21:33:06 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] 89oebq5k-84efa02cae5be555b16349b8d9ad71aea395c8f1-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:06 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded 89oebq5k-84efa02cae5be555b16349b8d9ad71aea395c8f1-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:33:06 dnsmasq[16398]: reply 89oebq5k-84efa02cae5be555b16349b8d9ad71aea395c8f1-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net is 192.225.158.3
Apr  1 21:33:07 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] aa.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:07 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded aa.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:33:07 dnsmasq[16398]: reply aa.online-metrix.net is 192.225.158.2
Apr  1 21:33:07 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] device-metrics-us.amazon.com from 10.141.165.190
Apr  1 21:33:10 dnsmasq[16398]: reply a239.gi3.akamai.net is 23.223.157.146
Apr  1 21:33:10 dnsmasq[16398]: reply a239.gi3.akamai.net is 23.223.157.138
Apr  1 21:33:22 dnsmasq[16398]: query[PTR] 66.165.141.10.in-addr.arpa from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:22 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded 66.165.141.10.in-addr.arpa to 10.141.165.1
Apr  1 21:33:22 dnsmasq[16398]: reply my.ip.ad.dr is mymac.com
Apr  1 21:33:31 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] www.citi.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:31 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded www.citi.com to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:33:31 dnsmasq[16398]: reply www.citi.com is <CNAME>
Apr  1 21:33:31 dnsmasq[16398]: reply san.www.citi.com.edgekey.net is <CNAME>
Apr  1 21:33:31 dnsmasq[16398]: reply e16976.x.akamaiedge.net is 184.87.60.148
Apr  1 21:33:32 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] nexus.ensighten.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:32 dnsmasq[16398]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list nexus.ensighten.com is 0.0.0.0
Apr  1 21:33:34 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] citi.bridgetrack.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:34 dnsmasq[16398]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list citi.bridgetrack.com is 0.0.0.0
Apr  1 21:33:35 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] h-online.citi.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:33:35 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded h-online.citi.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:33:35 dnsmasq[16398]: reply h-online.citi.online-metrix.net is 192.225.159.21

Apr  1 21:35:39 dnsmasq[16398]: reply e17437.dscb.akamaiedge.net is 96.17.64.147
Apr  1 21:35:44 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] nexus.ensighten.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:44 dnsmasq[16398]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list nexus.ensighten.com is 0.0.0.0
Apr  1 21:35:45 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] citi.com.ssl.sc.omtrdc.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:45 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded citi.com.ssl.sc.omtrdc.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:45 dnsmasq[16398]: reply citi.com.ssl.sc.omtrdc.net is 66.235.128.243
Apr  1 21:35:48 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] 89oebq5k-107474e8b81618c442670eeb96048b53ce8de570-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:48 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded 89oebq5k-107474e8b81618c442670eeb96048b53ce8de570-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:48 dnsmasq[16398]: reply 89oebq5k-107474e8b81618c442670eeb96048b53ce8de570-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net is 192.225.158.3
Apr  1 21:35:11 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] h-online.citi.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:11 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded h-online.citi.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:11 dnsmasq[16398]: reply h-online.citi.online-metrix.net is 192.225.159.21
Apr  1 21:35:22 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] nexus.ensighten.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:22 dnsmasq[16398]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list nexus.ensighten.com is 0.0.0.0
Apr  1 21:35:22 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] mpsnare.iesnare.com from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:22 dnsmasq[16398]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list mpsnare.iesnare.com is 0.0.0.0
Apr  1 21:35:23 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] h-online.citi.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:23 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded h-online.citi.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:23 dnsmasq[16398]: reply h-online.citi.online-metrix.net is 192.225.159.21
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] 89oebq5k-a730336c3ac398cc37058315f73ff25b1bbd143a-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded 89oebq5k-a730336c3ac398cc37058315f73ff25b1bbd143a-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: reply 89oebq5k-a730336c3ac398cc37058315f73ff25b1bbd143a-sac.d.aa.online-metrix.net is 192.225.158.3
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: query[A] aa.online-metrix.net from my.ip.ad.dr
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: forwarded aa.online-metrix.net to 1.0.0.1
Apr  1 21:35:28 dnsmasq[16398]: reply aa.online-metrix.net is 192.225.158.2

All this Reddit thread suggests to WL nexus.ensighten.com, agreed?

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Hi, could you please help me out how can I add this list in pi-hole as I am running in docker. Thank you so much

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Does anyone have CNN white list??

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For GlobalTV and CTV GO Android App you need imasdk.googleapis.com (video ads :frowning: )

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For Brave Browser's rewards program: ads-serve.brave.com

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Some Roku channels such as PBS require advertising or they don't work. When I try to play a video on my Roku device, the PBS channel shuts down and I'm returned to the Roku home screen. : PBS Help

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As I'm too stupid to edit the first post to add the information directly, here is some addition:
For sueddeutsche.de (German newspaper), it seems to be necessary to whitelist
c.amazon-adsystem.com
to avoid the overlaying pop-up that asks you to deactivate ad-blockers.

Cheers,
Matthias

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To add games with gold games from xbox Live
sfdataservice.microsoft.com