Blocking BBC Iplayer On Zyxel USG 60

JCE

Hi,

We have a USG60

We are trying to stop our UK based staff watching BBC Iplayer (As this requires the company to have a TV licence)

Obviously we cant block the site bbc.co.uk/iplayer as you cant block a sub section of a domain and we don't want to block the whole of the bbc.co.uk as its used for news and finance etc

Also we dont want to block the Streaming category as staff use youtube for research

Any ideas ?

Many thanks

smb_corp_user

The challenge of blocking a streaming service without blocking the whole domain, is that you may need to block services, manually, every service port address used by the stream. You could use a more complete solution like pfSense, but then you may run into the issue of blocking FaceTime calls. A tricky and complex issue, sure, but you might find something useful in a search like
 https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+block+iplayer+traffic+in+the+firewall

One of those forums looks like some useful info might be found in their thread:
https://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum/index.php?topic=13366.0 
(How to block iPlayer on your Router)

Have not found anything useful so far, still browsing.

PeterUK

Make a address FQDN with *bidi.net.uk and drop it for destination from LAN1 to WAN 

Zyxel_Emily

Hi @JCE,

Try to use App Patrol to block BBC iplayer. Create an application object containing these two applications. Then go to App Patrol, create a new profile with this application object and action "drop/reject", and apply this profile to security policy rule.