[Release] AB-Solution 3 - The Ad Blocking Solution

[GGavan]

Thank you, both (calzor suzay, HeMaN)! It was short, clear and helpful!

 

[fearz]

Hi,

Tried to install pixelserv but the stats page never worked, AiCLoud poort is changed, here is the log:

v 12 15:28:15 fearz: Started pixelserv-tls (AB-Solution) from .
Nov 12 15:28:15 pixelserv[18595]: pixelserv-tls version: v35.HZ12.Ki compiled: Oct 31 2016 11:29:48 options: 192.168.2.3 -l
Nov 12 15:28:15 pixelserv[18595]: Listening on :192.168.2.3:80
Nov 12 15:28:15 pixelserv[18595]: Listening on :192.168.2.3:443
Nov 12 15:28:15 pixelserv[18597]: (11) 192.168.2.3: Wget/1.16 (linux-gnu) GET /servstats.txt HTTP/1.1

Whenver I go to httpORs://192.168.2.3/servstats/ says refused to connect

Any solutions?

 

[tomsk]

did you try without the slash on the end http://192.168.2.3/servstats

my log shows like this

Nov 12 17:51:44 RT-AC68U-4690 pixelserv[24739]: (10) 192.168.2.60: 192.168.2.3 GET /servstats HTTP/1.1

 

[thexile]

What does this mean?

weekly-log-stats.sh is missing content
[: email: unknown operand

I got the above error after responding to this message:

-------------------- Message ---------------------

 AB-Solution message:
 Error(s) found. Type 22 and hit [Enter]
--------------------------------------------------

 

[tomsk]

have you set your weekly log stats to be sent by email with out setting up your email configuration?

 

[HeMaN]

What does this mean?

weekly-log-stats.sh is missing content
[: email: unknown operand

I got the above error after responding to this message:

-------------------- Message ---------------------

 AB-Solution message:
 Error(s) found. Type 22 and hit [Enter]
--------------------------------------------------

In the menu type'ws' and choose output to file, or set your mail credentials

 

[thelonelycoder]

What does this mean?

weekly-log-stats.sh is missing content
[: email: unknown operand

I got the above error after responding to this message:

-------------------- Message ---------------------

 AB-Solution message:
 Error(s) found. Type 22 and hit [Enter]
--------------------------------------------------

Do as @HeMaN writes. This is after an update and you had (ws) set before. Nothing to worry about, just an oversight I made with the update process not asking how to send the stats with the new options available.

 

[Makaveli]

I have a question what is the benefit to running Pixelserv?

Also i've been looking at the "How to best run pixelserv tls on asuswrt"

https://github.com/kvic-z/pixelserv-tls/wiki/How-to-best-run-pixelserv-tls-on-Asuswrt-Merlin

Question is specifically about the IP address pool on your LAN

My current IP range is 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.12 its small range because I don't have a ton of devices and all my devices are already setup with a static IP. Do I really have to move my starting address to 192.168.1.10 so I can have addresses below .10 available for static assignment as the link suggest?

 

[JacquesR]

I have a question what is the benefit to running Pixelserv?

The benefit is that it works with HTTPS, whereas Ab-Solution was previously only blocking HTTP ads.

 

[Makaveli]

The benefit is that it works with HTTPS, whereas Ab-Solution was previously only blocking HTTP ads.

And does AB-Solution only still block HTTP only and not HTTPS ads?

 

[swatc1h]

Unless other devices have the same problem, I doubt this has anything to do at all with what AB-Solution does to your routers DHCP function.
Maybe that device was in the now reserved IP range and wanted to connect to a address outside of the DHCP pool. Perhaps even the very address you assigned to be the PS IP.
You could turn logging or adblocking to off and back on, this restarts Dnsmasq and could resolve your issue.
Otherwise, post the full content of /etc/dnsmasq.conf for us to find clues.

wow i wasn't paying attention and added ip pool ending address . it's why my assigned ip is in the short range .

another question . is there a default pixelserv log location other than system log .

 

[tomsk]

pixelserv is a web server whose purpose is to serve a transparent 1X1 pixel in place of an advertisement. In this way the space on the web page that would have been occupied by an ad is closed out rather than returning an error message....
Pixelserv by default listens for http requests on port 80 and https requests on port 443. We reserve one static ip address for pixelserv for this purpose, and we only move the DCHP reservation space to prevent DCHP giving out the pixelserv IP to another client. Starting pool reservation at 10 IPs up is just convenience...you could equally reserve an IP at the other end of the range for pixelserv.
AIcloud also grabs port 443 by default and conflicts with pixelserv.... i see people mostly change the AIcloud port to resolve this.
By default pixelserv will log to syslog, however pixelserv will generate a lot of messages and i don't particularly recommend that you switch logging on unless you have a particular issue.

 

[Makaveli]

pixelserv is a web server whose purpose is to serve a transparent 1X1 pixel in place of an advertisement. In this way the space on the web page that would have been occupied by an ad is closed out rather than returning an error message....
Pixelserv by default listens for http requests on port 80 and https requests on port 443. We reserve one static ip address for pixelserv for this purpose, and we only move the DCHP reservation space to prevent DCHP giving out the pixelserv IP to another client. Starting pool reservation at 10 IPs up is just convenience...you could equally reserve an IP at the other end of the range for pixelserv.
AIcloud also grabs port 443 by default and conflicts with pixelserv.... i see people mostly change the AIcloud port to resolve this.
By default pixelserv will log to syslog, however pixelserv will generate a lot of messages and i don't particularly recommend that you switch logging on unless you have a particular issue.

Thanks so I think I will try to just assign pixelserv a static IP. Doing it the other way will force me to reassign static ip's for all my devices to .10 and up which I would prefer to avoid if I can.

Is there a way to change the aicloud port beside the GUI?

That section has been removed from the Vortex port of merlin.

 

[tomsk]

Thanks so I think I will try to just assign pixelserv a static IP. Doing it the other way will force me to reassign static ip's for all my devices to .10 and up which I would prefer to avoid if I can.

Is there a way to change the aicloud port beside the GUI?

That section has been removed from the Vortex port of merlin.

Im not familiar with vortex.... there might be an nvram setting that works. I had a quick look through the list on my merlin router and webdav_https_port looks like it might be the one.

 

[iaTa]

When I visit http://192.168.1.2 (PS IP) in a browser I see a white page as expected.

When I go to https://192.168.1.2 I see a 'Site can't be reached' error.

Surely I should see the same white page on https?

 

[tomsk]

When I visit http://192.168.1.2 (PS IP) in a browser I see a white page as expected.

When I go to https://192.168.1.2 I see a 'Site can't be reached' error.

Surely I should see the same white page on https?

You won't get the white page because the SSL connection can't be established. you would need to import the certificate to your client so the keys can be exchanged for that.

 

[bayern1975]

yesterday i upgraded ab-solution with pixelserv...everythin was ok yesterday but today on any site i get pixelserv certificate error? what went wrong?

 

[tomsk]

yesterday i upgraded ab-solution with pixelserv...everythin was ok yesterday but today on any site i get pixelserv certificate error? what went wrong?

Are you using the same browser as yesterday?.... there is actually nothing wrong with your AB/pixelserv installation. Pixelserv-tls generates wildcard certificates so that it doesn't have to generate a certificate for every single ad domain. Some browsers handle this differently to others, and you are receiving this warning because the browser is not getting back the certificate it was expecting from the pixelserv server. You may have to import the root certificate into your machine to get rid of this certificate error.

 

[HeMaN]

yesterday i upgraded ab-solution with pixelserv...everythin was ok yesterday but today on any site i get pixelserv certificate error? what went wrong?

already tries this?
http://www.snbforums.com/threads/release-ab-solution-3.35540/page-11#post-289891

 

[bayern1975]

i have pixelserv ca.cert in windows and browser but still get that missing cert error from kaspersky.....i will remove everything and going back to http and ab-solution....