How To Block Ip Address On Mac For Youtube

How to block a range of IP addresses? (Youtube speed fix) Discussion in 'ASUS AC Routers & Adapters' started by SrValasco, Mar 26. People have found that if you block a certain range of IP addresses either in your Windows or Mac firewall or ideally in your router, that this will force your machine to skip those particular servers that are.

Yep, I did exactly that, each time I added a new domain, and received successful flush responses each time. I'm sure there are more domains in there than I need, but nothing seems to be adversely affected. No matter though, it started working. I can just adjust the DNS settings in the router when I need to view Youtube, and it seems to pick up blocking as soon as I change it back, so all good. I guess I could use MAC filtering, then add the DNS settings to each device I wanted to restrict. I don't know if Firesticks and devices like that have that setting though.

Creating separate WIFI networks, one filtered and one not, might be possible also if the router supports it. I already have another router set up as an extender in my house though instead of buying an Orbi.

I'm trying to determine the best way to block traffic from my mac to a specific IP address on my internal network. From what I can tell I could potentially setup something in IPFW to block all outbound traffic to a specific ip address on the mac. Or I could try to setup an ACL on my switch to block the communication. However I can't find enough information on either one to know for sure if either will work for what I need. I need to make sure that the mac will not be able to communicate on any port with a specific ip address.

Including UDP broadcasts that the mac does. Can someone help point me in the right direction as to which solution to use, if either of those will work.

And if they won't does anyone have other ideas? Both the mac, and the other device have static ip addresses, so I don't have to worry about ips changing on me at all.

Thanks for any help you can give. Thank you for the reply. 1: I have not seen anywhere in my router the ability to block communication internally between devices.

Maybe my router isn't high end enough to do that, or i'm just not reading its options for what they truely are. 2: Parental Controls only work for specific user accounts, and not for the administrator account. However the blocking I need is complete for the computer, not just specific users. 3: Not sure why I would want to use Open DNS. It seems that would block communication between my computer and external ip's. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you want me to do with OpenDNS, please let me know what you had in mind. 4: Lastly firewalls.

Thats why my original post asked about IPFW, as its the built in firewall to OS X. However I'm not sure how/what to configure in it. I assume I need to create a deny statement somehow but I have never used ipfw to know for sure how to configure it. And from what I can tell its only command line, and if you make changes upon a reboot those changes are gone.

I have seen mention to a couple front ends to ipfw, but nothing that really says if it can do what I want and how to do it. Thanks again for the help. Well here are some answers: 3. With OpenDNS you can make a free account and block certain kinds of web sites (like porn, trojan hosting, etc.). I do this and it works great and even made my surfing just a little faster. They have all of the world now too.

Besides with OpenDNS you control your own DNS and not any ISP that barely pays attention to their DNS servers (most ISP just use DNS relays from headquarters). So if you open an OpenDNS account and put their DNS servers (that YOU control with that account). Most kids have no clue what DNS means so hiding the knowledge of your OpenDNS account and putting those servers in the Mac you want, you have the blocks.

WaterRoof and NoobProof are GUI programs to control the built-in ipfw. How to allow pop ups on mac. This way you don't have to be a command line jockey to use that built-in robust firewall. Sorry for yet another post, but I must still be missing something. I have installed waterroof. I have added in a couple test rules.

Deny all from me to 192.168.0.100 (test computer) and I can no longer ping that computer. So that rules seems to work. I then added a deny all from me to 192.168.0.85. However this one does not fix my issue.

My issue is that the computer (me in settings above) sends out a global UDP broadcast that if the device at 192.168.0.85 hears it, it crashes. I figured if I blocked all communications between 'me' and.85 85 would not hear the broadcast. However that does not seem to be the case. Does it make sense that this setting is not blocking the UDP broadcast to that IP address? If it does, then what other settings will I need to add to block this correctly? Thanks again.