Delay WAN/internet access on boot?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi. I need to delay the internet access for 1 minute after a reboot, since I have a few addons/plugins that take about 50 seconds to fully load and I don't want to have access to the internet without those addons loaded first.
Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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don't bring the wan interface up on boot

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Thanks. However I've tried it and it seems that the addons throw error and dont load at all without internet so I will try to see if there's another approach.
Thanks again.

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It seems that you have a catch 22 here, so what packages are we talking about?

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Right now I'm trying adblock. There's a timeframe after reboot (usually about 50 seconds) that I can access any site.

EDIT: I guess this happens because it needs to download the lists from somewhere.

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kill the upstream DNS IPs until you manually add them.

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Yea, what was your plan to load the blocklist from internet without internet?

There is a possibility to download them physically, but that tactic is a flash memory killer so use with care.

But AdBlock isn’t a webbpage blocker anyway. It only blocks add-on ads on webpages so there is no great security function to wait for it.

If you actually want to block webpages then BanIP is probably a better choice.

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