AB-Solution 1.07 is out!

[visortgw]

That is done by the script by disabling the upstream DNS, forcing the router to be the one to handle it.

Thanks! I had the issue earlier where AB-Solution's blocking was not working, and enabling "Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS" was the only solution that I could find.

 

[Lee Banwell]

Just to be clear using a VPN disables the ad blocking?

In my case I have some networked clients going down a VPN using selective policy routing over OpenVpn (also using 8.8.8.8 via DNS filtering). They do get ads. In parallel I have clients not using the VPN who retain the ad blocked status.

 

[visortgw]

Just to be clear using a VPN disables the ad blocking?

In my case I have some networked clients going down a VPN using selective policy routing over OpenVpn (also using 8.8.8.8 via DNS filtering). They do get ads. In parallel I have clients not using the VPN who retain the ad blocked status.

It depends on how the VPN server is configured (i.e., whether "Advertise DNS to clients" is enabled, whether ad blocking is enabled on the server, etc).

 

[G F]

It depends on how the VPN server is configured (i.e., whether "Advertise DNS to clients" is enabled, whether ad blocking is enabled on the server, etc).

I've just tried this and it appears to resolve the problem for VPN connected machines. Great suggestion.

 

[peraburek]

can you please allow installation on USB flash drives?
I have USB flash drive connected 24/7, but when I run script and try to install I get this error

 No ext2|ext3|ext4 devices available. Exiting...

I have changed this

case $(uname -m) in
    armv7l)
        PART_TYPES='ext2|ext3|ext4';;
    mips)
        PART_TYPES='ext2|ext3';;

to this

case $(uname -m) in
    armv7l)
        PART_TYPES='sda1';;
    mips)
        PART_TYPES='sda1';;

and then it worked

 

[visortgw]

can you please allow installation on USB flash drives
I have USB flash drive connected 24/7, but when I run script and try to install I get this error

 No ext2|ext3|ext4 devices available. Exiting...

The USB flash drive needs to be reformatted using one of the specified formats. On my MacBook Pro, I used one of the Paragon utilities to format mine https://www.paragon-software.com/ -- they have Windows versions, too.

 

[cybrnook]

(Great guide if you need to format a USB drive to ext2 using your router OS http://www.algissalys.com/how-to/format-and-partition-usb-asuswrt-routers)

 

[edward99]

Using AB-Solution at my home network - all working fine, thank you.
but there are a couple of clients for which I use Parental controls->DNS Filtering - and AB-Solution is not working for them.

Is it possible to somehow combine these two solutions?

 

[peraburek]

The USB flash drive needs to be reformatted using one of the specified formats. On my MacBook Pro, I used one of the Paragon utilities to format mine https://www.paragon-software.com/ -- they have Windows versions, too.

it is not neccessary, my USB flash drive works with FAT32 just fine, it was just the path config "sda1"

 

[Mirabis]

The i (install/upgrade), does that cover going from 1.06 to 1.07 as well? Or should I just overwrite the file with the newer one?


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[thelonelycoder]

Using AB-Solution at my home network - all working fine, thank you.
but there are a couple of clients for which I use Parental controls->DNS Filtering - and AB-Solution is not working for them.

Is it possible to somehow combine these two solutions?

The DNS filtering is done externally, circumventing the local dnsmasq. AB-Solution is using dnsmasq to do the blocking.

 

[thelonelycoder]

The i (install/upgrade), does that cover going from 1.06 to 1.07 as well? Or should I just overwrite the file with the newer one?


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Yes, you can delete ab-solution.sh and dowload the latest version from GitHub. Then run install and it will upgrade the installation if necessary.

 

[thelonelycoder]

can you please allow installation on USB flash drives?

Please read post #1

case $(uname -m) in
armv7l)
PART_TYPES='sda1';;
mips)
PART_TYPES='sda1';;

The proper way would have been to add the file system type, not the given name of the device. Like so:

case $(uname -m) in
    armv7l)
        PART_TYPES='fat|ext2|ext3|ext4';;
    mips)
        PART_TYPES='fat|ext2|ext3';;

 

[thelonelycoder]

If you're using AB-Solution: Please participate in the poll. Thanks

 

[Savell Martin]

Hey TLC, will this auto update from v1.0 all the way to v1.07 straight away using the latest download?
Or do I need to do incremental upgrades?

 

[thelonelycoder]

Hey TLC, will this auto update from v1.0 all the way to v1.07 straight away using the latest download?

Yup!
I'm going to add this to post #1

 

[peraburek]

If you're using AB-Solution: Please participate in the poll. Thanks

I did, I have installed AB-Solution 1.07 for the first time, after adjusting it for "fat 32" installation was painless

I have chosen "Medium" list, added one test domain to blacklist (it works), can you recommend what should address ads, it seems ads are not addressed
I guess Medium list address malware domains primarily

I have tried "shooter40sw's choice: ~5.8 MB" list as well, but it seems majority of ads are not affected ?

Thank you for your good work, I really like old-school ASCII good-bye message reminds me of BBS times - when Internet was in diapers

 

[jeff288]

The GUI version, is this something you're going to implement in Merlin's firmware? I'm out of the loop here but I recall Merlin saying he wouldn't use any ad-blocking in the firmware for various reasons. Also, thanks for this useful software.

 

[cybrnook]

The GUI version, is this something you're going to implement in Merlin's firmware? I'm out of the loop here but I recall Merlin saying he wouldn't use any ad-blocking in the firmware for various reasons. Also, thanks for this useful software.

This will be installed after the initial Merlin flash. This is going to be an "Add-on".

 

[thelonelycoder]

I have chosen "Medium" list, added one test domain to blacklist (it works), can you recommend what should address ads, it seems ads are not addressed

Medium includes these hosts files:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/