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Question about ABE blocked LAN access

Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:58 pm
by Guest
I am not sure how, if at all, this concerns ABE but I wasn't sure where else to ask this as it seemed kind of odd to me.

I noticed that my ABP blockable items log showed that 192.168.2.1/zCfgTestFail.html was listed as one of the items on Hulu the other day. I have never seen that before, from any site, and I don't understand why that would be listed, let alone when watching something on Hulu, what it means exactly or how normal it may be.

It wasn't listed as having been blocked but when I tried to visit the link it brings up the ABE block notice. I do see that my router showed that it reset its uptime at the time ABP listed it in its log on Hulu which seems odd since the router has never seemingly reset its uptime before short of doing so manually or after a manual change in a setting.

Is that just something normal or, as it appears, that Hulu attempted or accessed my router for some odd reason (if that is even possible)?

At first I was thinking it was unrelated to watching something on Hulu when it happened but the ABP blockable items log only lists items accessed on that specific page (and it was the only tab even open at the time). Was it something harmless?

Re: Question about ABE blocked LAN access

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 12:29 am
by Thrawn
I'm not much familiar with Hulu, but if your router was restarting for some reason, then it would make sense for that page to appear.

I doubt that Hulu.com could cause it to restart, though; that kind of tampering is exactly what ABE prevents.

Re: Question about ABE blocked LAN access

Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:45 am
by Guest
Thank you Thrawn.

It had me concerned as I had never seen my router address listed in the ABP blockable items log before and was worried that it appearing meant it was caused by the page it was logging.