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  1. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    I would just give up on those two providers because of the DNS issue. The topic has come up multiple times on the forum and there is no work around that I am aware of. The only work around that may work is to do what you are doing to get it working with the manual intervention when using the...
  2. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    You will have to ask NORD and Express if their DNS is dynamic. Maybe one of the other NORD and Express users know????? I've not used them myself. Perhaps it is like Cloudflare? I enter 1.1.1.1 in the config. It then uses a DNS close to my geo end point when I set Accept DNS Config to Disabled...
  3. Xentrk

    NordVPN Firestick problems on RT-AC68U

    Check the Enable DNS-based Filtering setting. (LAN->DNS Filter tab). The setting forces all clients to use the DNS of the router. If it is on, it may be preventing the NordVPN app from using Nord DNS. From reports on the forum, it appears that Nord requires that you use their DNS servers. It...
  4. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    Glad you are still hanging in there. I first started this journey on DD-WRT. eibgrad has many posts and scripts on the DD-WRT forum that helped me learn when I first got into this. Glad to see him jump on snbforms as he has a lot of knowledge. I have not heard of anyone using TOR for...
  5. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    With the TG dedicated IP, you are the only one using it. As a result, streaming media companies don't flag it as a VPN as they do not see 1,000's of connections coming from the same IP. That is my theory anyway. TG recommends that you only use the private IP for streaming due to the hacks they...
  6. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    You've confirmed what others have reported about Nord and Express here on the snbforums. Those are the two VPN providers that people always report issues with since they require exclusive use of their DNS to circumvent the VPN blocks. There was a recent thread where some forum users developed a...
  7. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    If it makes you feel better, I have not been able to figure out Paramount+ (formely CBS All Access) despite my best effort. Lot's of CDN stuff going on. I'm going to switch streaming devices to see if I can get a better handle on where it is failing. NordVPN and ExpressVPN have the most...
  8. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    Nothing changed in the new version in how dnsmasq.conf.add gets updated. No other reports of the issue have been reported since the major rewrite last summer. If it happens again, look in the system log for clues.
  9. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    I added your entries to my dnsmasq.conf.add followed by a reboot. No changed after the reboot. I suspect you have another user script or postconf script (dnsmasq.posconf) that is modifying the file. This will list out the files that contain the word dnsmasq.conf.add in the /jffs/scripts...
  10. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    You want to use the high level names under the IPSET Format heading. These are "query" records. The domains return by the reply records don't need to be included. The IPSET feature of dnsmasq handles that. The reason for listing the FQDN in the report is for a sanity check. For example, I was...
  11. Xentrk

    x3mRouting Version 2.4.5 (23 May, 2021)

    x3mRouting Version 2.4.5 (23 May, 2021) Updates Primary updates are some code revisions that most will not notice. The new feature is the "del=force" parameter and can be used in place of the "del" parameter. See complete description below. x3mRouting.sh + Add new 'del=force' parameter...
  12. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    I think the error is there are more domain names that you need to specify in addition to nowtv. I saw sky.com listed in the web page source. Please see my comments in the prior post about performing the analysis.
  13. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    What traffic do you want to route to WAN? VPN Client Bypass Routing is the correct method to use. You can specify any VPN client and the source 0 for WAN as the destination. Most people use it to bypass the VPN for exceptions. For example, they route all LAN traffic thru the VPN client using...
  14. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    LAN Client devices often have a default DNS configured which takes precedence over router DNS settings. DNS Filter prevents this and forces all LAN clients to use the DNS specified on the WAN page, other DNS providers, or a custom DNS (VPN provider DNS) by device MAC address. You can experiment...
  15. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    You are using the "Manual" method with the command. x3mRouting is looking for the file containing the IPv4 addresses in /opt/tmp/ITV (unless you specified another directory location) that was manually created and it does not exist. So it throws the error. The manual method is used to create...
  16. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    If no records showed up in the report, then you have Policy Rules set to Strict and Accept DNS Configuration = Exclusive. When you have Accept DNS Configuration set to Exlusive + Policy Rules enabled, the vpn tunnel exclusively uses the DNS of the VPN provider, and dnsmasq is bypassed which...
  17. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    Additional analysis is required to determine the domain names being used. x3mRouting has the scripts/tools to help. First, you need to configure your VPN client to force ALL network traffic or the device you are streaming NOW TV from to use the VPN Client required with NOW TV. Then, run...
  18. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

  19. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    I posted OpenVPN Client instructions that may help on my blog site. I need to update it but it will give you an overview.
  20. Xentrk

    x3mRouting x3mRouting ~ Selective Routing for Asuswrt-Merlin Firmware (1-Nov-2020)

    Look in the System Log for clues as to why the VPN connection is having issues. Most providers allow you to create and import an ovpn config file which helps eliminates errors. Policy Rules (Strict) setting needs to be enabled in the OpenVPN client screen for x3mRouting to work.
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