PainKiller89
Occasional Visitor
I whitelisted coupons.com but page still wont load correctly. Turning off AB solution fixes the site. Any ideas?
is there any advantage for AB if dnsmasq is replaced with FTLDNS ?
Makes sense. They want to make it look cool, not functional.FTLDNS wraps DNSmasq as-is inside it and ensures consistency and speed in their statistics collection. That's about it. By doing so, they also export through "API" to allow other people (such as ABS) to retrieve those statistics.
It's an interesting science project in itself but of little utility. Pi-Hole seems to me heading the wrong direction by creating this FTLDNS.
The reason I think so because to start with getting the statistics from Dnsmasq (Pi-Hole currently parsing Dnsmasq logs and in future from FTLDNS) is not very useful but eye candy. It also doesn't speed up your browsing experience in any way.
Pi-Hole with their resources should have done quite a few things in a better way. One project could be to start a competitor to pixelserv-tls or simply integrates it.
pixelserv-tls not only allows people to collect much more meaningful statistics and hence fancier charts but also accelerate people's browsing experience.
Makes sense. They want to make it look cool, not functional.
exiting AB-Solution
checking installation state
/opt/etc/init.d/S80pixelserv-tls: .: line 31: can't open '/opt/etc/init.d/rc.func'
--------------------- Message ----------------------
AB-Solution found errors in your installation.
This needs to be fixed before leaving.
./ab-solution.sh: line 1298: /opt/etc/init.d/S80pixelserv-tls: Permission denied
pixelserv-tls is not running
My chromecast also keeps pinging 8.8.8.8, even if blocked it doesn't affect connectivity at all. I'm assuming it just falls back to be my default dns (set up through dsncrpyt).My iPhone x keeps pinging google DNS 8.8.8.8 every 30secs or so
My chromecast audio keeps on pinging some other 8.8.8.8 all the time.
If you have Policy Rules enabled, ABS will not work over the tunnel unless you make some config changes. It has to do with the way DNS is handled when using Policy Rules. I explain this in more detail and have documented the changes you will need to make here https://x3mtek.com/torguard-openvpn-2-4-client-setup-for-asuswrt-merlin-firmware/I am a new AB-Solution user. Using the latest built.
I noticed that when I establish an OpenVPN session in my ASUS WRT-Merlin AC88U router, running the latest firmware, AB-Solutions stops working properly. Looking at the AB console all looks fine, but when I visit sites while on VPN, the ads appear. The second I stop the VPN session and reload a page, the ads are blocked.
Is there a setting I need to change to enable AB under an OpenVPN session?
Thanks.
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@thelonelycoder I don't know how your ad-blocking works ('cos I don't use it) but you might need to whitelist these and possibly others:
aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com
ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com
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