Entware Can't update/install entware about 1 mounth

[ahyrych]

after little research, found that bin.entware.net dont accessible, because of domain location is russian federation. Since i live in Ukraine, Ukrainian government block access to russians IP's becouse of war, between russia and Ukraine. Is there way to access to entware from Ukraine not from russian location? for example from Europe, or US, or UK and so.

P.S. from PC with VPN i can access to bin.entware.net

 

[ryzhov_al]

We turned off Cloudflare frontend because it's broken for Chinese users, now Entware become inaccessible for Ukrainian

Please, try to use this mirror:

sed -i 's|http\?://bin.entware.net|http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/entware|g' /opt/etc/opkg.conf
opkg update

 

[ahyrych]

may i sorry
in SSH
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC86U 386.10_0 Fri Mar 10 21:22:55 UTC 2023
ankidu2adm@RT-AC86U-8390:/tmp/home/root# sed -i 's|http\?://bin.entware.net|http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/entware|g' /opt/etc/opkg.conf
sed: /opt/etc/opkg.conf: No such file or directory

 

[thelonelycoder]

may i sorry
in SSH
ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AC86U 386.10_0 Fri Mar 10 21:22:55 UTC 2023
ankidu2adm@RT-AC86U-8390:/tmp/home/root# sed -i 's|http\?://bin.entware.net|http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/entware|g' /opt/etc/opkg.conf
sed: /opt/etc/opkg.conf: No such file or directory

That’s a tricky one because Entware is not installed yet. I have to make a modification in amtm. Give me about an hour or so to make this work for all, irrespective of the users geographical location.

 

[thelonelycoder]

after little research, found that bin.entware.net dont accessible, because of domain location is russian federation. Since i live in Ukraine, Ukrainian government block access to russians IP's becouse of war, between russia and Ukraine. Is there way to access to entware from Ukraine not from russian location? for example from Europe, or US, or UK and so.

OK my friend. I changed the Entware setup procedure so that you can select the source of the install.
Please do a force update of amtm (uu) before installing Entware.

After some checks by amtm you'll get to this screen:

 1. Continue using entware.net server (default)
 2. Continue using mirror bfsu.edu.cn
    (in case entware.net fails)
 3. Return to device selection

Select 2 to continue. It will automatically rewrite all URLs in Entware so that when you check for updates later on, it will use the mirror as well.
I tested it here in Switzerland and it should work for you too. Good luck and stay strong!

 

[thelonelycoder]

We turned off Cloudflare frontend because it's broken for Chinese users, now Entware become inaccessible for Ukrainian

Please, try to use this mirror:

sed -i 's|http\?://bin.entware.net|http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/entware|g' /opt/etc/opkg.conf
opkg update

Are you planning on keeping this mirror or is it just temporarily?

 

[ahyrych]

tnx a lot thelonelycoder!!! please leave this mirror for us, us in Ukrane

 

[ahyrych]

its fantastic, i install ntpmerlin and unbound! tnx too much again!

 

[thelonelycoder]

its fantastic, i install ntpmerlin and unbound! tnx too much again!

You make my day Thanks also to @ryzhov_al for the mirror.

 

[jsbeddow]

While I welcome the recognition that this has been an issue for a while, the solution unfortunately added the alternative download location to the only other country that I block with Skynet (ru and cn). I guess I will have to continue to temporarily disable Skynet every time I attempt an Entware update check.

Sigh....I know, this one is on me...unless you by chance can add another one or two mirrors in more "neutral" locations.

 

[thelonelycoder]

While I welcome the recognition that this has been an issue for a while, the solution unfortunately added the alternative download location to the only other country that I block with Skynet (ru and cn). I guess I will have to continue to temporarily disable Skynet every time I attempt an Entware update check.

Sigh....I know, this one is on me...

I too had to remove cn in Skynet to test the mirror. If only there were (you fill the blank).

 

[jsbeddow]

Ok, perhaps a whitelist addition to Skynet will resolve this. SMH...getting too old for this.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Ok, perhaps a whitelist addition to Skynet will resolve this. SMH...getting too old for this.

If Diversion is installed, it auto-adds entware.net to the Skynet whitelist. I also have ru blocked in Skynet and never have an issue with installs/updates. Propably should move that feature over to amtm.

 

[ryzhov_al]

Are you planning on keeping this mirror or is it just temporarily?

That one isn't mine. Still LGTM, it's quite stable.
Looks like I have to gather and maintain a mirror list.

 

[thelonelycoder]

That one isn't mine. Still LGTM, it's quite stable.
Looks like I have to gather and maintain a mirror list.

Could you provide a mirror list that I can use in my scripts? I would like to give my users the option to select a mirror or have my script automatically select one.

I would gladly host a mirror myself as backup option but I'm not sure if my hosting can pickup the load or if you would be fine with that.
I did a brief test by trying to run a local mirror but stopped the sync of just the one repo aarch64-k3.10 as it appears to be well over one GB alone. I did not want your server to ban my IP for excessive load