Before I spend weeks or months researching, can someone tell me will adblock work on an OpenWRT repeater setup? I travel and never have access to the actual routers and wish to block ads. If it does work, has anyone ever seen a link pointing to a complete cookbook for setting it up? My experience with OpenWRT is not to the level of understand dns masquerade, etc. Thanks.
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It will, as long as you use the device's IP as your DNS server.
Not sure what this means.
You install it:
#FOR ADBLOCKING INSTALL: adblock luci-app-adblock libustream-mbedtls libmbedtls
You then browse to the AdBlock page:
- enable it
- use uclient-fetch
- select the blocklist sources you wish to use
- reload AdBlock or reboot router
- DONE!
Thank you very much .... I cannot find an option for uclient-fetch. I do see a box which offers "Force Local DNS", should that one be checked? Thanks
I have not used it, there are some threads on how this feature works. I'm not sure how it would function in your "repeater" setup.
I simply make sure all my devices use that DNS server (since it's necessary for local hostname resolutions anyways).
Please post the output of:
opkg list-installed | grep -E "^luci|^adblock"
ubus call system board
If you use your router as a travel router/routed client then "Yes" - but it's optional.
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I cannot find an option for uclient-fetch. I do see a box which offers "Force Local DNS"
I think you might just be looking in the wrong area, scroll up a bit and look in the dropdown menu for Download Utility.
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On the top I have Status, System Services, Network, Logout
When I open Services, Adblock I have only 3 tabs which say
Overview, View logfile, Advanced
There are no other drop-down boxes that I see.
root@GL-AR300M:~# opkg list-installed | grep -E "^luci|^adblock"
adblock - 2.6.2-1
luci - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-app-adblock - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-app-dns-forwarder - 1.6.1-1
luci-app-firewall - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-app-mwan3 - 1.4-5
luci-app-qos - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-app-samba - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-app-shadowsocks - 1.8.2-1
luci-app-upnp - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-base - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-lib-ip - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-lib-json - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-lib-jsonc - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-lib-nixio - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-mod-admin-full - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-mod-rpc - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-proto-3g - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-proto-ipv6 - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-proto-ppp - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
luci-theme-bootstrap - git-17.290.79498-d3f0685-1
root@GL-AR300M:~#
root@GL-AR300M:~# ubus call system board
{
"kernel": "4.4.92",
"hostname": "GL-AR300M",
"system": "Qualcomm Atheros QCA9533 ver 2 rev 0",
"model": "GL-AR300M",
"board_name": "gl-ar300m",
"release": {
"distribution": "LEDE",
"version": "17.01.4",
"revision": "r3560-79f57e422d",
"codename": "reboot",
"target": "ar71xx\/nand",
"description": "LEDE Reboot 17.01.4 r3560-79f57e422d"
}
}
root@GL-AR300M:~#
Provide results of /etc/init.d/adblock status
Now I rebooted for the third time and found that Adbloc did not save to be enabled. When I clicked it and saved again, now I do get the
I see now, there is no selection for the Download Utility (SSL Library) because now, the words "uclient - fetch" do exist here but it is the default option as there is no drop down box with any other slections.
plus I receive:
For SSL protected blocklist sources you need a suitable SSL library, e.g. 'libustream-ssl' or the wget 'built-in'.
This is why I noted:
Install all packages:
opkg update
opkg install adblock luci-app-adblock libustream-mbedtls libmbedtls
I ran each one of those individually and each one said they were up to date which would indicate they were already installed.
Now after I rebooted once again, under each topic under "Runtime Information" (Status, Adblock, etc) each line is followed by in blue type the letters "n/a".
Do you have an IP, DNS server and Gateway assigned to the interface (so it can download)?
Uninstalled first adblock, then luci-app-adblock and then I re-installed adblock and then luci-app-adblock. Now all the n/a entries have gone away but still the entry for "Download Utility (SSL library) has an entry field and not editable drop down box, the non-changeable entry listed says that the default option selected is "uclient - fetch (libustream-ssl)
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It should look like this.
Feel free to screenshot if needed.
requires libustream-mbedtls to be installed (or libustream-openssl or libustream-wolfssl).
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The Internet source for this router is a Alfa USB device which is configured as client and then I did a SCAN of available networks, and then a JOIN of a known network and entered the Passcode. This is the supplied source of Internet, the client side of the router. The OPKG commands work great in this environment. I haven't tried a WGET of anything, however.
Everything is going through this router with the client pulling in the local wifi and re-transmitting it to my laptop. I can do everything, watch movies, all on the laptop going through this OpenWRT configured as repeater.
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root@GL-AR300M:~# /etc/init.d/adblock status
::: adblock runtime information
status : active
adblock_version : 2.6.2
blocked_domains : 4063
fetch_info : uclient-fetch (libustream-ssl)
dns_backend : dnsmasq
last_rundate : 04.09.2018 16:34:25
system : LEDE Reboot 17.01.4 r3560-79f57e422d
root@GL-AR300M:~#
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It appears to be running. Visit: https://ads-blocker.com/testing/