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[mantorok]

Hi,

I'm having a problem getting the Access Control feature on my DIR-868L to work. I'm trying to prevent my iPad from accessing youtube.com.  To do this I:

1. Created a Schedule (under Tools > Schedules) which is currently set to all days (checked individually) and time frame is 0:00 to 23:59. This is just to test if it works.  Eventually I'll set it to only certain days and a smaller time frame.

2. Created a Website filter (under Advanced > Website Filter) and set it to "DENY computers access to ONLY these sites" and added "youtube.com" to the list

3. Created a new Access Control Policy (under Advanced > Access Control) using
 a) the schedule created in step 1 above
 b) the MAC address of the iPad
 c) "Block Some Access" selected and "Apply Web Filter" checked. ("Apply Advanced Port Filters" is not checked)
 d) "Web Access Logging" set to Disabled

4. Rebooted the router and enabled the new policy.

After doing all this the iPad is still able to access youtube content. Have I missed something? Has anyone else got Access Control to work?

NOTE: I'm currently running firmware 1.07 and followed the recommended procedure when upgrading from 1.06. I restored router config from file, not manually re-entered from scratch.  I'm in Australia and the firmware was sourced from https://au.mydlink.com/support
Thanks,
Mantorok

[FurryNutz]

As a test, can you block ALL access to the internet and does it work using the filter?

Do you have a IP address reservation set up for the iPad?
Is DNS Relay enabled or disabled?

[mantorok]

I figured it out.  It was all set up correctly but I didn't realise that the YouTube app on the iPad doesn't use the youtube.com domain.  For some reason it uses googlevideo.com.

When I added googlevideo.com to the Website filter the YouTube app was unable to play any videos (which is what I wanted).

[FurryNutz]

Does help to have the correct domain I guess.  Glad you got it figured out.

Enjoy.