[ProSiebenMaxx] Unable to download JSON metadata

[sp00n]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.prosiebenmaxx.de/anime/blue-exorcist/video/118-folge-18-orkan-ganze-folge']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.07.10
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-90979-g08032331ac, ffprobe N-90979-g08032331ac
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[prosiebensat1] anime/blue-exorcist/video/118-folge-18-orkan-ganze-folge: Downloading webpage
[prosiebensat1] 5357897: Downloading videos JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: <urlopen error [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed> (caused by URLError(gaierror(11001, 'getaddrinfo failed'),))
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 599, in _request_webpage
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 464, in open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 482, in _open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 442, in _call_chain
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmp4etivjk5\build\youtube_dl\utils.py", line 946, in http_open
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 1185, in do_open

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I've tried with a version from March before that, which showed the same error. I've also tried to add the cookie from the browser via --add-header "Cookie:xyz", but it didn't help (same error).

[dstftw]

Post the output of nslookup vas.sim-technik.de.

[sp00n]

Hm, indeed, it seems that the Adblock plugin in my LEDE router somehow blocked sim-technik.de. I added vas.sim-technik.de to the whitelist and rebooted, and it seems to work now.