It tried to. I use an opnsense firewall which caught it. I copied my logs and submitted the domains to a popular dns blocklist and they’ve already been merged.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

Thanks!

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Was this like an iso file of the disk that you played played in vlc? And you're saying it tried to ping that telemetry domain? I'm not quite understanding the context here.

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Physical disc in a cd/dvd/bluray drive

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So you put the physical disk in and it plays through vlc player on your pc?

If so, are you sure it was vlc that pinged the domain and not the bluray player?

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Both devices made ping attempts. Not hard to confirm with firewall logs bc of timestamps and internal IP addresses.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 points 4 days ago

Interesting. Got it. Pihole is helpful as you said. Also maybe set a firewall rule for vlc not be able to connect to the wider Internet.