I have Peplink Balance 380 device
I tried to make new outbound route for You tube to go out from Wan 2 only
it some times working and some times not working
please i need to correct steps for making this policy
Please post a screen shot of the rule you made.
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You will find that routing by DNS name does not work as you expected. This is because the router actually does a reverse lookup for outbound connections. The reverse lookup often does not match the forward lookup.
You want to route youtube.com traffic…
Client A does a DNS lookup for Youtube.com and gets back 172.217.5.206
Client A tries to initiate a connection to 172.217.5.206
Router does a reverse lookup for 172.217.5.206 and gets back lax28s10-in-f14.1e100.net
since the routing rule is based on youtube.com and NOT 1e100.net, the traffic does not match the rule.
I am hopeful that peplink one day will change this outbound policy to use cached records in it’s internal DNS server for outbound routing. The router knows that client A asked for youtube.com and it also knows that 172.21.5.206 was returned for youtube.com – I don’t understand why the reverse lookup is needed. The best I can come up with is that some folks do NOT use the internal DNS server and caching mechanism - so a reverse lookup would be the “best effort”
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I think this is still happening… i’m trying to have it force out from my vpn, won’t go.