Chrome breaks the Yosemite Network Stack on a Parental Controls enabled account

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Chrome breaks the Yosemite Network Stack on a Parental Controls enabled account

Hi,

I have been dealing with this problem for several days after migrating the family computer to 10.10. I even went to a completely clean install of OSX in case it was a migration issue. It looks like once you start Chrome on a account with Parental Controls the network stack is corrupted for that user until they log out.

I noticed this on the google forum but no app should be able to corrupt the network stack of the account.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/mac/XzALqmvUkms

Anybody else seen this, or know a work around besides for running Safari or disabling Parental Controls?

Posted on Oct 26, 2014 4:16 AM

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EricD321

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Oct 29, 2014 8:51 AM in response to importer

Related question is Parental controls completely blocks all internet access without it being blocked in parental controls.

and there's also a bug opened on Chrome side https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=427242

I would have to make more checks, but I'm not sure it is linked to Chrome itself, but more to the fact that Chrome uses https by default.

As soon as you use https, then it's as if the DNS resolution did not work. You can ping to the IP of google.com, but not to google.com directly.

Disabling parental control is a workaround to the issue. As they have changed the daemon doing name solving with Yosemite, it looks like the interaction of that new thing with parental controls does not work well, i.e. parental controls crash it.

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importer Author

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Oct 30, 2014 12:39 AM in response to EricD321

Thanks for this, I think your are right, but the important point to note is that as long as you don't run Chrome, Safari can use https fine.

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Nov 2, 2014 5:58 AM in response to EricD321

Helpful answer, but does not provide a viable solution if both controls and Chrome are necessary. Any development expected?

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Jan 14, 2015 8:55 AM in response to EricD321

Looks like this issue is now fixed with the latest update to Yosemite. Since the last update Chrome works fine on my sons account which uses parental controls.

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