Apple app store not available with DNS?

[garymh]

Hi - complete newb here, I apologize in advance. I'm using a pretty much stock install of Technitium on a raspberry pi with the exception of adding the Hagezi Pro block lists (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/wildcard/pro-onlydomains.txt)

I can't seem to connect to the Apple App Store. It doesn't seem to be related to the blocker, as disabling that temporary doesn't fix the problem. Is there a setting I should tweak somewhere?

[ShreyasZare]

Thanks for the post. The blocklist is unlikely to block important domain names that could cause things to fail so it does not looks like the domain is being blocked. Its more likely that the domain is failing to resolve due to some network issues.

I do not have any Apple device so not sure which domain names are being used for app store. I would suggest that you install Query Logs (Sqlite) DNS app and then use the Logs > Query Logs section to find out which domain name is failing to resolve. You can also check for DNS Logs on the admin panel to see if there are any errors logged related to resolution failures.

If you need help understanding the error logs then do post them here.

[ShreyasZare]

Yes, you can filter by setting the RCODE to ServerFailure and check if any of the domain names look like ones used by Apple.

[garymh]

🤔 Maybe something else is going on. I don't have any ServerFailure entries at all the last few days. The only entry that isn't NoError is "NxDomain"

[ShreyasZare]

Yes, could be something else entirely too.

[garymh]

Hmm. it does seem to be something with Technitium... bypassing my Technitium instance and changing my DNS to 8.8.8.8 makes it work again.

Are there any more verbose logs I can turn on? I currently have "Log All Queries" on.

[ShreyasZare]

The logs are already verbose. The Log All Queries will log each response the server sends in the log file. It will be the same as that of the Query Logs app.