@JeffSloan wrote:
Jason,
If you agree to what channel, and what you are doing...
Then whitelist where they are trying to go.
As I posted before, once you whitelist them, they stop retrying over and over, because it succeeds, and it quietens down. The sticks even run cooler.
I have 6 Roku devices, and once I whitelisted where they were "spamming", things are so much better.
BUT, you have to keep your eye on it, because they change where they try to go, based on updates, and, on whatever channel or app you use. So, you may need to whitelist more as time goes on.
I don't see why that is necessary. I also have 6 Roku devices - 1 Soundbar, 3 Ultras and two much older devices from probably pre-2014. Some of those are TCL TVs too. The only device in my house that behaves this way is my soundbar. It's just spamming requests. I guess I could set up a local DNS sinkhole server to give it an ACK so it shuts the heck up, but I shouldn't have to do that.
Every single other Roku device behaves fine. And as OP stated - the noise on the local network is what this thread is trying to hopefully resolve. If I deny outbound traffic on my own network, that should not mean that Roku can flood my network with requests.
At the end of the day, is it affecting my network overall? No, not really. Is it acting suspicious? Absolutely.
I also have a Hisense "Google" TV, which is the TV connected to my soundbar. Not even Google's Hisense TV software spams out traffic this much. And I use my Roku Ultra in my bedroom more than any other device - it reaches out maybe once or twice an hour, just like my other Roku devices. It's just the soundbar that spams out requests.
