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Restrict Youtube Content

This guide will show you how to implement Restricted YouTube control on the DNS Cache for ClearOS in accordance with this Google Guide.

Overview

This method is not exhaustive and has some limitations in operability due to the nature of the underlying DNSMasq service. You will be required to input current information for some domains into your hosts file and then create CNAME records in your DNSMasq cache. The reason for the host file entries is due to a limitation in DNSMasq. See the manual page for DNSMasq for more information.

Host Entries

According to the Google Doc, you need to create CNAME records for the following host names:

www.youtube.com
m.youtube.com
youtubei.googleapis.com
youtube.googleapis.com
www.youtube-nocookie.com

Due to a limitation in DNSMasq, you will need to create these as host files. You can do that in your DNS and Hosts app in Webconfig or you can modify the /etc/hosts file.

First, find the IP address associated with each hostname. For example:

ping -c 1 www.youtube.com
ping -c 1 m.youtube.com
ping -c 1 youtubei.googleapis.com
ping -c 1 youtube.googleapis.com
ping -c 1 www.youtube-nocookie.com

That produces these results (at the time of this writing):

youtube-ui.l.google.com (208.187.128.25)
m.youtube.com (208.187.128.23)
googleapis.l.google.com (216.58.193.74)
youtube.googleapis.com (173.194.203.239)
youtube-ui.l.google.com (208.187.128.25)

From this list I would make the following entries in the DNS and Hosts app or the /etc/hosts file:

208.187.128.25           youtube-ui.l.google.com
208.187.128.23           m.youtube.com
216.58.193.74            googleapis.l.google.com
173.194.203.239          youtube.googleapis.com
208.187.128.25           youtube-ui.l.google.com

IP to hostname assignments can change regularly. This information can easily be invalidated by Google at any time and these addresses reflect only the addresses returned for just one of many on a query at the time of the writing of this article. You will need to keep these files up to date.

DNSMasq

Now that the host entries are made, DNSMasq is able to assign CNAME records. Modify your /etc/dnsmasq.conf file and add the entries for the CNAME records at the bottom of your config file:

cname=youtube-ui.l.google.com,restrict.youtube.com
cname=m.youtube.com,restrict.youtube.com
cname=googleapis.l.google.com,restrict.youtube.com
cname=youtube.googleapis.com,restrict.youtube.com
cname=youtube-ui.l.google.com,restrict.youtube.com

Restart the dnsmasq service:

service dnsmasq restart

Now, test your entries with 'dig':

dig @localhost youtube-ui.l.google.com
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.5 <<>> @localhost youtube-ui.l.google.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31186
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;youtube-ui.l.google.com.		IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
youtube-ui.l.google.com.	0	IN	CNAME	restrict.youtube.com.
restrict.youtube.com.	3600	IN	A	216.239.38.120

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Mar 14 13:23:49 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74
content/en_us/kb_restricted_youtube.txt · Last modified: 2016/03/14 13:39 by dloper

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