Skynet Does countryblock stop trendmicro? please advise

[BreakingDad]

Can someone confirm if country blocking china would stop trendmicro protection working?

I think that's where their servers are based right?

Or am I completely wrong.

I just keep thinking I am borking trend micro protection with a CN block and would like someone above my monkey IQ to confirm.

 

[dave14305]

Their servers use AWS. See how the name ntd-asus-2014b-en.fbs20.trendmicro.com resolves on your router to get the IPs for your region.

 

[EmeraldDeer]

By the way, even if the servers were not Amazon, Trend Micro was at one time in Taiwan, not mainland CN. It currently has offices in Tokyo and Austin.

 

[BreakingDad]

Thanks guys, appreciated. I also have TW blocked, not Austin though.

I checked the ip, going through USA so all good @dave14305

I trust the USA ;o)

 

[Jack Yaz]

I trust the USA ;o)

i don't!

 

[gattaca]

Can't we just block "trendmicro.com" and be done? I see those queries too.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Can't we just block "trendmicro.com" and be done? I see those queries too.

I think you're missing the point (or I'm missing your point). He wants to not block trendmicro.com.

 

[BreakingDad]

I do notice trendmicro barely kicks in with skynet on. I'm guessing skynet is blocking before trendmicro gets chance to.

I had a strange one last night in the battle.net authentication server (in usa) seemed to be blocked after an update by skynet. Fixed it with a whitelist of the "offender" and logged straight in.

 

[gattaca]

^^^ Ah.. my bad. OK I have CN country-blocked in skynet and I still see the trendmicro.com queries whiz by (non-red) when I follow the Diversion color-coded logs.
...
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: reply settingsfd-geo.trafficmanager.net is 52.167.17.97
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: validation result is INSECURE
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: reply trendmicro.com.edgesuite.net is <CNAME>
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: query[AAAA] a151.g.akamai.net from 192.168.xxx.yyy
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: forwarded a151.g.akamai.net to 127.0.1.1
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: validation result is INSECURE
Apr 23 08:27:25 dnsmasq[2951]: query[A] rgom10-en.url.trendmicro.com from 192.168.xxx.yyy