SMS786
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Thank you!ep, 5
You are using a very outdated and insecure firmware on this router. That model is no longer in the supported Asuswrt-Merlin model list and will no longer be updated.Help solve the problem RT-N66U B1 cannot update Diversion and amtm
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For the screenshot from your PC, you have three IPs listed for DNS because you specified DNS 1, DNS 2, and advertise router's IP in addition to. If you don't want your local devices to use the router, then set that radio button to No.Can you please help me with configuration?
I do not want to use Diversion for all device, only for TV etc. to stop it from calling home, however it is blocking ads on all the devices.
Ideally I would still like to use router for DNS as I do have some dns(? - firewall url filter) blocking set up, but that is different from diversion.
This is config I see on pc
This is my DHCP config - only devices I want to use diversion on have DNS server set
This is my diversion settings
I have used diversion long time ago and it worked like that, but this time I guess I configured something wrong after updating router.
Thank you
Your router isn’t supported with the firmware.Diversion 4.2.0 by thelonelycoder
EA6900 (armv7l) FW-386.3 @ 192.168.1.1
Your list is probably too large.b blocking list Large Sun @ 2:00
Its the same hardware running the same firmware that would be "supported".Your router isn’t supported with the firmware.
Your list is probably too large.
You aren't going to get much help here running Asus firmware on a illegal device.Its the same hardware running the same firmware that would be "supported".
Odds are its the USB drive with inadequate read/write speeds running entware.
Thanks, I was unaware of the licensing more so than the way the response was worded that the build was unsupported. I suppose I should keep any converse to the application itself than the device. For the record it turned out to just be a poor performing USB with the larger list. I install an agent to poll some data and nothing alarming has shown in the last while nor any timeouts occurred since using a USB 3.0 drive for entware/diversion.You aren't going to get much help here running Asus firmware on a illegal device.
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You are right with the ISPs DNSs, but the thing is I can see diversion blocking stuff that is not coming from tv or other things i block from calling home. But that is great point at why the firewall rules don't work. Thank you.For the screenshot from your PC, you have three IPs listed for DNS because you specified DNS 1, DNS 2, and advertise router's IP in addition to. If you don't want your local devices to use the router, then set that radio button to No.
For your Samsung, you listed the DNS server as the Pixelserv address, that isn't a DNS address. The Pixelserv address is where ads get resolved to. So, instead of resolving ACMEevilAds.com to 156.49.7.8, it goes to 192.168.50.2 and a 1x1 pixel is served up instead. You should use 192.168.50.1 for the TV.
I think you have to use a Raspberry Pi to have it use a different IP address, but that's just an educated guess and someone else here could have much better information than me.You are right with the ISPs DNSs, but the thing is I can see diversion blocking stuff that is not coming from tv or other things i block from calling home. But that is great point at why the firewall rules don't work. Thank you.
After removing ISPs DNS traffic is still blocked by diversion even thought only DNS server set does have router ip 192.168.50.1
Update: I think I now understand your comment about the TV, so my question now is:
Is it possible to run Diversion on other IP then router's IP?
So I would have two separate DNSes, let's say:
router default dns 192.168.50.1
diversion dns 192.168.50.2 [so it would be in a way as an pihole]
pixelserver on 192.168.50.3
Also in my previous post i lied, now I remember when blocking worked as I had described it I had run pihole on internet server exposed to the world instead. So now I tried running diversion locally and got it confused with pihole. Sorry for that.
Diversion isn't a DNS server. I imagine you'd have to look through the source code to try and change the IP Diversion points to, and you would need to find another DNS server to run on the router. You probably want a new thread asking if anyone else has tried to have two DNS servers on your router.Is it possible to run Diversion on other IP then router's IP?
So I would have two separate DNS serverrs, let's say:
router default dns server 192.168.50.1
diversion dns server 192.168.50.2 (and if the request passed filtering it would use 192.168.50.1 for resolving the request)
pixelserver on 192.168.50.3
I do not know if diversion even works in the same way as pihole or adguard home - maybe it is not dns server?
See https://diversion.ch/diversion/manual/alternate-blocking-list.htmlIs it possible to run Diversion on other IP then router's IP?
So I would have two separate DNS serverrs, let's say:
router default dns server 192.168.50.1
diversion dns server 192.168.50.2 (and if the request passed filtering it would use 192.168.50.1 for resolving the request)
pixelserver on 192.168.50.3
I do not know if diversion even works in the same way as pihole or adguard home - maybe it is not dns server?
@thelonelycoderWelcome
This is Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker for Asuswrt-Merlin
Sounds like a doable feature. Will be available with the next Diversion update.Is there anyway of bypassing a client to not use the Diversion Ad-Blocking and just use the DNS services as provided by the router (or as provided by the ISP)?
as usual, i have this setup with various scripts - yet another simplification thanks to Diversion. thanks for making my router easier to manage!Sounds like a doable feature. Will be available with the next Diversion update.
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