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zoelechat wrote:Tomato firmware is fine, it allows to block "URLs containing string". Doesn't mean no other fw can do it, just talking about the one I know

Yeah, Tomato is great, you are lucky! I used it before on a Linksys WRT54GL, I am going to see if I can find it although I would not be surprised if my girlfriend has thrown it out thinking it 'junk'.

In fact... I just checked... It doesn't block https

zoelechat wrote:In fact... I just checked... It doesn't block https

Does it need to?

mmmh I don't know I have E series, I'm not very annoyed by updates

Do you know if it would be possible to get a network IP for mscend.net and samsungotn.net that I could use to block all hosts on those domains?

dusf wrote:Do you know if it would be possible to get a network IP for mscend.net and samsungotn.net that I could use to block all hosts on those domains?

list of hosts UNLIMITED. If you block "all hosts" samsung will add MORE You need blocking by domain or AT LEAST by string. Best is to block on DNS level ALSO

dusf wrote:Do you know if it would be possible to get a network IP for mscend.net and samsungotn.net that I could use to block all hosts on those domains?

Every subdomain can have a different IP, so blocking main domain IP doesn't work.

I'm using DD-WRT and if I block samsungotn.net, it blocks all subdomains too. I verified some time ago that this is enough to block Samsung firmware updates. If you are going with DD-WRT then don't forget to add your TVs MAC address to blocked devices list, otherwise the access is not blocked.

@M11
Is it working also for https? I blocked it by access restriction (I'm using tomato by shibby) but it is bloked without https, so I added also port 443 for blocking for TV device IP until now everything working good (I also blocked it by service menu)

dar3k wrote:@M11
Is it working also for https? I blocked it by access restriction (I'm using tomato by shibby) but it is bloked without https, so I added also port 443 for blocking for TV device IP until now everything working good (I also blocked it by service menu)

I have not specifically tested HTTPS, but I assume Samsung is using HTTPS for updates? I confirmed that my TV could not update when I blocked samsungotn.net. I needed to block updates when Samsung released a update that bricked a lot of TVs in US (fortunately it was never released in Europe).

I'm not always blocking updates because I prefer best possible picture quality over playing with my TVs internals. sectroyer here seems to think that all people that don't block updates are stupid, so I guess I'm stupid

M11 wrote: I'm not always blocking updates because I prefer best possible picture quality over playing with my TVs internals. sectroyer here seems to think that all people that don't block updates are stupid, so I guess I'm stupid

Best possible picture quality is with LOWEST firmware possible. NEVER, EVER update