Dropbox not running

[milo]

Hello all,

how do i add these domains?

• dl.dropboxusercontent.com/*
• dl.dropbox.com/*
• dl-web.dropbox.com/*
• dl-client.dropbox.com/*
• dl-doc.dropbox.com/*
• dl-doc.dropboxusercontent.com/*
• api-content.dropbox.com/*
• content.dropboxapi.com/*
• api-content-photos.dropbox.com/*
• showbox-tr.dropbox.com/*
• photos.dropbox.com/*
• photos-.dropbox.com/
• dl-debug*.dropbox.com/*
• bolt.dropbox.com/
• .dropbox.com/content_link/
• .dropbox.com/content_link_zip/
• .dropbox.com/content_link_htmlify/
• .dropbox.com/content_link_preview/
• .dropbox.com/link_token_dl/
• .dropbox.com/link_token_dl_zip/
• .dropbox.com/zip_collection/
• .dropbox.com/transcode_video/
• .dropbox.com/hls_transcode/
• .dropbox.com/t/
• .dropbox.com*/u/**
• .dropbox.com*/s/***
• .dropbox.com*/sh/***
• *.dropbox.com/sc/
• .dropbox.com/photos/album/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/c/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/cc/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/cl/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/cp/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/conversation_add/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/conversation_invite/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/conversation_preview/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/post/****
• .dropbox.com/photos/c/permanent_collection_thumb/****

So that dropbox is running smoothly.

[jpgpi250]

use this regex (web interface / domains / tab 'Regex filter' / Add to Whitelist):

^(.+[_.-])?dropbox(usercontent|api)?\.com$

regex101 says:

regexper says:

[Bucking_Horn]

jpgpi250's regex approach should give you a good starting point to experiment with.

But please note that Pi-hole is a DNS filter.

As such, it can only filter domains, since a client will only send requests to resolve a given domain to Pi-hole, i.e. Pi-hole only ever sees the domain/host part of a URL you point your browser to.

@milo

bolt.dropbox.com

That's the only plain domain on your list.

All other entries are URLs (with the http:// scheme stripped), referencing certain resources hosted via a given domain.
That said, as a URL like dl.dropboxusercontent.com/* is referencing any resource, that could be achieved by blocking the respective domain as well (i.e. dl.dropboxusercontent.com)

All other entries stating more specific resources (like *.dropbox.com/photos/album/*) are not visible for Pi-hole, i.e. you cannot specifically block or allow those.

You may choose to allow/block the parent domain instead, but note that this may result in allowing/blocking more than you may intend to.