My TVs are kept on a their own VLAN with only access to my docker host running Jellyfin and Channels DVR. I got a new TV recently which has a real annoying "no internet connection" popup that can't be disabled. My initial assumption was that I could watch its traffic and make DNS records for the hostnames it tries to contact that redirect to my firewall. Assuming it's just a ping check, that should do it. I have all that set up and pinging the addresses the TV tries to hit over ADB works fine.
hengshan:/ $ ping google.com
PING google.com (192.168.20.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.23 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.885 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=7.57 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.04 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=7.50 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.20.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=7.57 ms
I'm using defreitas/dns-proxy-server in docker as a simple listener and forwarder. The host is on the same VLAN with no internet access and is set to use itself for DNS. So the whole thing is one big loop. Again, assuming all the TV needs is a ping check, then this should work, right? Just a box that points all the DNS requests I've found to my firewall and the firewall echos the request, but I'm still getting sporadic "no internet" popups
Is my setup missing something or is it safe to say the TV is doing something other than a ping check to verify connectivity?
Clicked on this as a pfSense CE user and, gotta be honest, this post is more of a bait and switch than what Netgate did. This is absolutely a scummy practice, don't get me wrong, but putting up a thread about a company "messing with their userbase" sends up a lot more red flags than "they took away one free offering". This doesn't impact CE users, so your very loud rallying cry of "Are you willing to pay $400/year for your firewall software when youre only using it privately in your small homelab" is pretty overblown if you're acknowledging the target audience of this sub is largely people who can get away fine with CE
And what about Jellyfin's demise are you on about? I don't see any recent posts in here about anything going on with JF