topic Re: Youtube safe mode in General Topics

Youtube safe mode

breezer — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:31:53 GMT

Hello all,

Yes its youtube again, for a while now youtube has been working fine since we turned on the safety-mode feature and forced students to select safe-mode.

But this week they have been complaining that not all the videos work.

I have looked at the logs and there are some videos that have a url at googlevideos.com and these are using the google-video-base application, this is blocked by default as we cannot determine the nature of the video.

Has anyone else notice this, and can we trust google-video-base to be (U18) safe with youtube-safety-mode switched on.

Thanks for any input.

Ian Meaton

Hereward College

Re: Youtube safe mode

kadak — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:25:53 GMT

Hello Ian,

Currently we have an internal case opened with the engineering team to work on this issue where youtube-base traffic is being identified as google-video-base traffic in content versions 402 and 403. At this time, the root cause appears to be due to recent changes made by Google, not by Palo Alto Networks.

I would recommend permitting google-video-base temporarily in policies that allow youtube-base until issues are fully resolved.

As long as that youtube-safey mode is on and students are browsing videos through youtube.com, you should be fine.

Thanks and regards,

Kunal Adak

Re: Youtube safe mode

breezer — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:49:32 GMT

Thank you,

I have opened a case and uploaded all the requested logs.

Ian

Edit

The videos are redirected to

video.google.com

when I put in an allow rule for this you can then browse google videos and potentially view whatever they are currently offering.