Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[L&LD]

You will need to reboot at least the device and maybe the router, to make sure the settings take effect too.

 

[Skillz]

As I said in my last reply the router already does that if you leave the DHCP DNS fields empty. Why your Android device is not respecting the settings is something I can't tell you without further troubleshooting.

I get what you're saying, something seems wrong on Android and hopefully on my Android device alone. But if not, all other Android users will also have the 2nd dns server pointing to google, which will lead to adblocking not working (because of round-robin) and alot of confusion why ads are still appearing on android devices. Hopefully some other Android users can do a quick test?

1 check your current wifi dns settings on your android device, is the secondary dns google's dns?
2 fill out both dns fields (your router ip) in the router dhcp server tab, hit apply, wait until done
3 on your android device, disable wifi and enable wifi again, check your dns settings on your android device, you should now only see the router dns ip.
- now revert the changes you made in step 2, or restart Diversion.

edit: I'll perform some restarts on my devices, just to be sure.

update: same issue after restarting router/phone

 

[dave14305]

I get what you're saying, something seems wrong on Android and hopefully on my Android device alone. But if not, all other Android users will also have the 2nd dns server pointing to google, which will lead to adblocking not working (because of round-robin) and alot of confusion why ads are still appearing on android devices. Hopefully some other Android users can do a quick test?

1 check your current wifi dns settings on your android device, is the secondary dns google's dns?
2 fill out both dns fields (your router ip) in the router dhcp server tab, hit apply, wait until done
3 on your android device, disable wifi and enable wifi again, check your dns settings on your android device, you should now only see the router dns ip.
- now revert the changes you made in step 2, or restart Diversion.

edit: I'll perform some restarts on my devices, just to be sure.

"Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS" only is activated if either of the DNS server fields are populated ("...in addition to user-specified DNS"). So DNSFilter is probably the best option.

 

[Skillz]

DNSFilter is a proper solution for this problem yes.
I'm just thinking that if this is an Android wide issue, every person with an Android device would need to configure the DNSFilter to make sure the secondary dns isn't pointing to google.

I hope some other people will do the test and report back, so you can act on it if needed.

 

[archiel]

Using recommended settings above I can only see the router addresses (ipv4 and ipv6) for DNS1 and DNS2 addresses are blank (0.0.0.0 and :: ) Nokia 7.1 running Android 10

 

[Skillz]

Using recommended settings above I can only see the router addresses (ipv4 and ipv6) for DNS1 and DNS2 addresses are blank (0.0.0.0 and :: ) Nokia 7.1 running Android 10

thank you for testing, I'm on OnePlus 6 Android 9
I really hope it's just me

 

[Opasen]

thank you for testing, I'm on OnePlus 6 Android 9
I really hope it's just me

I have a OnePlus 5T and with both Android 9 and 10 I get 8.8.8.8 as my secondary DNS.

If you use Chrome you can try disabling Async DNS resolver from chrome://flags. Unfortunately for me I still get Google DNS as my secondary.

 

[dave14305]

thank you for testing, I'm on OnePlus 6 Android 9
I really hope it's just me

I have a OnePlus 5T and with both Android 9 and 10 I get 8.8.8.8 as my secondary DNS.

If you use Chrome you can try disabling Async DNS resolver from chrome://flags. Unfortunately for me I still get Google DNS as my secondary.

See https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/secondary-dns-forced-to-8-8-8-8.999920/

 

[Opasen]

See https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/secondary-dns-forced-to-8-8-8-8.999920/

Yeah it's pretty much baked in and I don't use a rooted phone (enrolled in a work MDM).

Mind you Diversion still works great for me and the secondary DNS hasn't caused me any issues.

 

[Skillz]

Thank you Opasen and Dave14305, guess it's only/at least an OnePlus issue then. I'll just keep using my DNSFilter to be sure.

 

[Ubimo]

I wanted to add "*.connectedpdf.com" to the wc blacklist. (without the quotes of course)
Diversion says, I can't add it because it has a "*" in the domain name. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Asad Ali]

I wanted to add "*.connectedpdf.com" to the wc blacklist. (without the quotes of course)
Diversion says, I can't add it because it has a "*" in the domain name. What am I doing wrong?

Remove the * and add it like "connectedpdf.com" and Diversion will do the rest.

 

[root]

When I tried to enable ad blocking for Youtube I got this error message: "Error No recent YouTube domain found, view some YouTube videos in a browser!" so I watched some videos with ads on my PC and tried again and then I got the following error message: "Error YouTube IP is not valid". What am i doing wrong?

 

[thelonelycoder]

When I tried to enable ad blocking for Youtube I got this error message: "Error No recent YouTube domain found, view some YouTube videos in a browser!" so I watched some videos with ads on my PC and tried again and then I got the following error message: "Error YouTube IP is not valid". What am i doing wrong?

Is Diversion up to date? Run u to check.

 

[root]

Is Diversion up to date? Run u to check.

Yes, it's up to date, also ran uu.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Yes, it's up to date, also ran uu.

Do you have a reset option in b, 8? If so, reset it and try enabling it again.
If that is not available or still not works, then there's option d, 7 to reset the Dnsmasq log files. Be aware that this will skew stats if you have it enabled, but it should work.

 

[root]

Do you have a reset option in b, 8? If so, reset it and try enabling it again.
If that is not available or still not works, then there's option d, 7 to reset the Dnsmasq log files. Be aware that this will skew stats if you have it enabled, but it should work.

No reset option visible, I did reset the Dnsmasq log files with d-7, but it still says "Error YouTube IP is not valid".

 

[dave14305]

No reset option visible, I did reset the Dnsmasq log files with d-7, but it still says "Error YouTube IP is not valid".

Does dig command work properly on your router?

 

[root]

Does dig command work properly on your router?

And there we have the problem I think!

dig google.com gives "dig: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32"

How do I fix this?

 

[thelonelycoder]

And there we have the problem I think!

dig google.com gives "dig: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32"

How do I fix this?

dig was actually my first thought as the point of failure. What router model are you using?