This may help setting up your own DNS unblocking solution:

https://trick77.com/dns-unblocking-setup-tester/

Once everything has been set up properly, all ticks should be green like in this screenshot:

I just pushed another update to GitHub, please make sure to use a configuration generated with the latest generator version or the tester will fail. My main motivation to create this tester was to reduce the amount of support requests I’m receiving. Let’s see how well this goes :-)

I love watching the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Here’s what’s needed to watch CBS content on iPad outside the U.S. using my DNS-unblocking config generator.

   {
      "name": "cbs-akamai-ipad",
      "dest_addr": "ipad-streaming.cbs.com",
      "modes": [
        {
          "port": 80,
          "mode": "http"
        },
        {
          "port": 443,
          "mode": "https"
        }
      ],
      "catchall": true,
      "enabled": true
    }

Add this to config.json, regenerate the configuration files and make sure to upload them to the right places. As with NBC’s iOS app, the video stream itself is geo-fenced which may lead to considerable bandwidth consumption on your VPS server.

By the way, is it just me or does audio quality suck badly in CBS’s iOS app?

Today, NBC updated its mobile app for iPad and iPhone. The latest version features AirPlay support which means you can watch NBC TV shows on a large TV if you have an Apple TV connected to it. NBC offers free (ad-supported) content in its iOS app, including:

• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Late Night With Seth Myers
• About A Boy
• Grimm
• The Blacklist
• The Voice
• …and many more

In order to use the NBC app on iPad or iPhone outside the U.S., a new configuration entry is required in my non-SNI DNS-unblocking config generator’s config.json file:

    {
      "name": "nbc-ios",
      "dest_addr": "tve_nbc-vh.akamaihd.net",
      "modes": [
        {
          "port": 80,
          "mode": "http"
        },
        {
          "port": 443,
          "mode": "https"
        }
      ],
      "catchall": true,
      "enabled": true
    }

Since NBC uses a geo-fenced video stream from Akamai, the entire content stream has to be proxied through HAProxy which may – depending on your usage – lead to considerable bandwidth usage on your remote VPS server.