Where to ask questions about old openwrt?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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hello,

im looking for a place where i could ask questions (mainly technical) about old (or very old) versions of openwrt, which is not allowed in here. Where could i ask such questions?

thank you

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Asking the questions is certainly allowed but there not many people who can answer, so you often get an answer like "upgrade otherwise we cannot help you", not because people do not want to but because the expertise has faded.

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Ask away and hopefully some of the questions will be answered.

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Depends on if it real Openwrt or some vendor spin off.

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You can certainly get advice on how to migrate to current OpenWRT on a modern device.
If it is some OpenWRT derived vendor SDK it is more or less limited to explaining how your configuration would work on normal OpenWRT leaving levelling differences between you and vendor.

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okay :

thanks for your answer

it's an experiment, as the purpose is eg to block all subdomains of like :
-facebook.com
-tiktok.com
-twitter.com

by dns

etc etc. but using dnsmask, with very old versions of openwrt (backfire+att adj) (hw can't be replaced)

if anyone knows about how to do so (no Luci)

thanks !

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Please post output of:

ubus call system board

(use the </> button to format as code)

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Regardless, there are a couple of ways to achieve this.

First:

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

Second:

  • create your custom hosts file at path somepath (replace somepath with actual path to file)
  • enter these commands to tell the dnsmasq service to use that file:
uci add_list dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].addnhosts="somepath"
uci commit dhcp
/etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart

(I am not entirely sure that this will work on such an old version of OpenWrt but I think it should)

Either of these should do the trick. Note that on old versions of OpenWrt, dnsmasq is not very efficient, so this is only reasonable for a fairly small number of domains.