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add this metric.gstatic.com

Open holequantum opened this issue 3 years ago β€’ 3 comments

2fbb2cdf-dnsotls-ds.metric.gstatic.com ac0c3f6d-dnsotls-ds.metric.gstatic.com 4faff701-dnsotls-ds.metric.gstatic.com this type of url android uses for what i don't know but i have manually blocked them and see no other requests can pass through and this does bot block my system function or any issue that i encounter in last 10month or so in all of my devices hope it can be added in core repo.

holequantum avatar Jul 05 '22 06:07 holequantum

Hello! Thank you for opening your first issue in this repo. It’s people like you who make these host files better!

welcome[bot] avatar Jul 05 '22 06:07 welcome[bot]

Please do not block this domain. This is information from Adguard https://adguardteam.github.io/AdGuardSDNSFilter/Filters/filter.txt

! Fixing the issue with "Wi-Fi" connection mark when you configure private DNS on Android 9
! Once you enable private DNS, Android 9 starts resolving random domains looking like
! `*-*-ds.metric.gstatic.com` (for instance, `a5a6380f-dnsotls-ds.metric.gstatic.com`).
! Here you can check how it's used by Android: https://cs.android.com/search?q=ds.metric.gstatic.com
@@-ds.metric.gstatic.com^

bigdargon avatar Jul 05 '22 08:07 bigdargon

This should not be blocked as it will cause issues for a subset of Android users. You can view full discussion on https://help.nextdns.io/t/60hz6md/metric-gstatic-com-is-not-blocked-but-it-should-be

danielchristiancazares avatar Aug 25 '22 05:08 danielchristiancazares