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Alaska Airlines site failures with NextDNS

Their site has a zillion trackers, performance measurement, A/B testing, and all the other crap. And somehow they've wired it together such that if some of that doesn't load or work then parts of their site fail - basics like searching for plane tickets. 

I know it's their fault, but.. even if I explicitly add all the crap to the allow list the site still doesn't work. And even if I go and turn off all the security and privacy protection settings in NextDNS it still doesn't work. 

The only thing that does work is entirely by-passing NextDNS and using Cloudflare or Google DNS. 

I can't figure it out - nothing in the logs, but is completely repeatable. 

 

Veering off topic, but a nice feature would be a quick single-toggle disable/bypass mode so that DNS requests were forwarded to a chosen provider. Back when I was using PiHole I think it had a similar feature that made it easy to debug or at least answer "is it DNS?" (it's always DNS)

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    • losnad
    • 2 days ago
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    Look in logs if you have: «tags.tiqcdn.com» blocked. If it is add it to the «Allowlist», wait 5 minutes and try again to open the website. 

    You can use a (separate) browser where you can set the privat DNS to NextDNS with a separate profile, no profile at all or any other DNS (permanent or temporarily) for the off topic veering. This way you don't leave your device exposed.

      • David.87
      • 13 hrs ago
      • Reported - view

      thanks for checking - i do have *.tiqcdn.com in the allowlist: https://my.nextdns.io/28244f/allowlist

      That's what I didn't understand - I thought I had tracked down everything they needed and added to the Allowlist, but something was still getting blocked even though I didn't see it in the logs. 

      And that's when I went and turned off / removed all the privacy and protection settings and something was still getting blocked. 

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