Bad address: archive.openwrt.org

hi, i need help with installing barrier breaker to my range extender. All was going smoothly up until i did "opkg update" it's saying bad address: archive.openwrt.org , does this mean i cant use files from archive? your help will be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

Bad address: archive.openwrt.org

That's DNS-server response for a nonexistent domain name.
However it's working for me, so try to change your DNS-servers.

thank you for the quick response my good sir and forgive me by asking, since i am actually new to tweaking softwares and i just badly needs it for my range extender, how can i change my DNS-servers? im using mac OS. cheers and thank you again.

i'm sorry, what i mean is what DNS am i going to use" is there an specific one?

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/dhcp_configuration#upstream_dns_provider

@vgaetera sir, thank you so much, il do that and i'll inform you re: result. have a good one.

ok, i did the above lines and got this:

root@Phantom:~# service network reload

-ash: service: not found

root@Phantom:~# service dnsmasq restart

-ash: service: not found
/etc/init.d/network reload
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart
root@Phantom:~# service dnsmasq restart

-ash: service: not found

root@Phantom:~# /etc/init.d/network reload

Configuration file: /var/run/hostapd-phy0.conf

Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 60:60:1f:62:58:e3 and ssid "Phantom_6258e3"

root@Phantom:~# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

root@Phantom:~# opkg update

Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07-rc3/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz.

wget: bad address 'archive.openwrt.org'

Collected errors:

* opkg_download: Failed to download http://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07-rc3/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

root@Phantom:~#

am i doing something wrong?

no more rc3

https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/

https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/

You might be better of upgrading to 14.07 official release or a current release

i dont think new release has luci

root@Phantom:~# opkg update

Downloading https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz.

wget: not an http or ftp url: https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz

Collected errors:

* opkg_download: Failed to download https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

root@Phantom:~#

then 14.07 since 14.07-rc3 was a release candidate only

i tried the link you gave me and the result is

root@Phantom:~# opkg update

Downloading https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz.

wget: not an http or ftp url: https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz

Collected errors:

* opkg_download: Failed to download https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages//Packages.gz, wget returned 1.

https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/packages/packages/Packages.gz

Don't ask ???

Have look here with your browser to see the layout

https://archive.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07/ar71xx/generic/

i tried that my good sir but it comes up with another error:wget: not an http or ftp url:

did you notice the double packages in the path ???

What i need to use with luci is the dji range extender RE700. Which has no webui.

Change https:// to http://

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