AB-Solution 1.06 is out!

[thelonelycoder]

Announcement: AB-Solution v1.07 will be delayed due to reasons outside of my control for several days.

 

[Furbs]

Thanks for this - its fantastic. Installed over the top of the original "advanced" manual method with no problems at all.

I now have to ask a rather embarrassing question. Before I used AB-Solution I'd whitelisted pizzahut.ca as it goes to a completely white page otherwise. All seemed well. However, adding this as an exception with AB-Solution doesnt seem to have worked - I simply get the white page again? I notice that it goes to an https site, would that be the problem? The issue is on both a Win 10 desktop and my Android phone (both using Chrome). I've tried flushing the DNS cache on the PC and a force refresh.

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, and no, I don't use Pizza Hut *that* often!

 

[thelonelycoder]

Thanks for this - its fantastic. Installed over the top of the original "advanced" manual method with no problems at all.

I now have to ask a rather embarrassing question. Before I used AB-Solution I'd whitelisted pizzahut.ca as it goes to a completely white page otherwise. All seemed well. However, adding this as an exception with AB-Solution doesnt seem to have worked - I simply get the white page again? I notice that it goes to an https site, would that be the problem? The issue is on both a Win 10 desktop and my Android phone (both using Chrome). I've tried flushing the DNS cache on the PC and a force refresh.

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, and no, I don't use Pizza Hut *that* often!

You may have to add it again to the whitelist and then process the bl/whitelist in AB-Solution to apply it.

 

[cybrnook]

Thanks for this, and putting in the time to support it! Will give it a go this evening.

 

[wallaby32]

Thanks for this - its fantastic. Installed over the top of the original "advanced" manual method with no problems at all.

I now have to ask a rather embarrassing question. Before I used AB-Solution I'd whitelisted pizzahut.ca as it goes to a completely white page otherwise. All seemed well. However, adding this as an exception with AB-Solution doesnt seem to have worked - I simply get the white page again? I notice that it goes to an https site, would that be the problem? The issue is on both a Win 10 desktop and my Android phone (both using Chrome). I've tried flushing the DNS cache on the PC and a force refresh.

Apologies if this is answered elsewhere, and no, I don't use Pizza Hut *that* often!

did you use the "Process the white-list and black-list files" option? also, how did you add the url to the whitelist? did you double check that it sent that updated whitelist to the router storage device and not your local machine?

 

[cybrnook]

All went smooth, thanks! Looking forward to 1.07 now

 

[Furbs]

did you use the "Process the white-list and black-list files" option? also, how did you add the url to the whitelist? did you double check that it sent that updated whitelist to the router storage device and not your local machine?

Yup, I've Processed the file.

I added the url to the Whitelist using WinSCP and opening the text file directly through there, saved the file, reopened it to verify its still there. I've also checked the whitelist within AB-Solution itself and that looks good.

If I check the hosts file on the router, the domain isnt listed to be blocked, which I realise suggests something else is at play, BUT if I disable adblocking with AB-Solution, it instantly becomes accessible.

I've just enabled logging and filtered by "pizzahut.ca" and get the following:
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.xx
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.144.20
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: reply www.pizzahut.ca is <CNAME>

A whois on the 64.59.x.x IP address is my ISP (Shaw).

Doing the same thing with adblocking disabled results in this:

Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] pizzahut.ca from 192.168.xx
Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: reply pizzahut.ca is 66.11.157.211
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.11
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.xx
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.144.20
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: reply www.pizzahut.ca is <CNAME>

I think I can see the problem then - the reply not resolving? Any ideas why adblock being on would stop that? If I was looking at that, I must admit I'd think it was my ISP being slow, but honestly, as soon as I disable adblocking, everything loads correctly

 

[NeoDragon]

Getting this error on a fresh install :

checking ab_dnsmasq_postconf.sh
ab_dnsmasq_postconf.sh is NOT OK, file missing

 

[thelonelycoder]

Getting this error on a fresh install :

Can you toggle logging or adblocking?
Edit: And then enter 22 and hit Enter. This checks the files again.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Yup, I've Processed the file.

I added the url to the Whitelist using WinSCP and opening the text file directly through there, saved the file, reopened it to verify its still there. I've also checked the whitelist within AB-Solution itself and that looks good.

If I check the hosts file on the router, the domain isnt listed to be blocked, which I realise suggests something else is at play, BUT if I disable adblocking with AB-Solution, it instantly becomes accessible.

I've just enabled logging and filtered by "pizzahut.ca" and get the following:
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.xx
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.144.20
Mar 31 23:25:19 dnsmasq[28183]: reply www.pizzahut.ca is <CNAME>

A whois on the 64.59.x.x IP address is my ISP (Shaw).

Doing the same thing with adblocking disabled results in this:

Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] pizzahut.ca from 192.168.xx
Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:31 dnsmasq[28716]: reply pizzahut.ca is 66.11.157.211
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.11
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: query[A] www.pizzahut.ca from 192.168.1.xx
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.144.20
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: forwarded www.pizzahut.ca to 64.59.150.142
Mar 31 23:30:32 dnsmasq[28716]: reply www.pizzahut.ca is <CNAME>

I think I can see the problem then - the reply not resolving? Any ideas why adblock being on would stop that? If I was looking at that, I must admit I'd think it was my ISP being slow, but honestly, as soon as I disable adblocking, everything loads correctly

Try option 2 in filtering, it'll list the ones that are blocked. Get your hints from there what to add to the whitelist.

 

[NeoDragon]

Logging Toggle :

What do you want to do? l
--------------------------------------------------
[: unknown: unknown operand
[: unknown: unknown operand
Refreshing Menu in a few seconds

Ad-blocking toggle:

What do you want to do? a
--------------------------------------------------

Ad-blocking is active at the moment.

Disable Ad-blocking? [1=Yes 2=Exit] 1
[: unknown: unknown operand
[: unknown: unknown operand
sed: /tmp/mnt/Optware/adblocking/scripts/ab_dnsmasq_postconf.sh: No such file or directory
[: unknown: unknown operand

Done.

22 + enter have the same output as the install.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Logging Toggle :


Ad-blocking toggle:


22 + enter have the same output as the install.

There's more than that file missing, your ab-solution.sh script might be corrupted.
Toggling one of the two would regenerate that file.
Download that file again and hit i to install.

 

[NeoDragon]

Uninstall + wget/install did the trick.

 

[thelonelycoder]

AB-Solution 1.07 is now available!