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copenhagen72
copenhagen72

Reputation: 111

URL blocking in OpenWRT?

I have Asus RT-N16 router. Stock latest firmware has DualWAN settings, but it works definitely bad - some days (when ISP1 is not stable and dualwan operating?) when I open websites router frequently redirects me to 192.168.1.1. I checked 2 devices, both works same way. One day I decided to change firmware, I read that OpenWRT is powerful, stable, etc. So I installed new firmware, latest Chaos Calmer 15.05. Then installed mwan3 package for multiwan features. Works stable, ok. But I did not found a simplest feature, that even stock firmware have, in admin panel - URL website filter. After googling I found some posts with crazy solutions, like manually (console) setting ip routes/hosts for every url or installing cache servers. Is there a simple solution/package for URL/keyword domain blocking (parental control) for OpenWRT or do I need to search another firmware?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 18400

Answers (2)

Vishal Rabadiya
Vishal Rabadiya

Reputation: 505

Also, you can do changes in firewall file, if u don't have memory to install additional packages. You just find the IP of website and add it to the firewall file with input, output and forward as reject. I have done this, and its works for me.

uci set firewall.block=rule
uci set firewall.block.name=anything
uci set firewall.block.src=lan
uci set firewall.block.dest=wan
uci set firewall.block.dest_ip=ipaddr
uci set firewall.block.target=reject

and if u want to block sites from wan then just:

uci set firewall.block.src=wan
uci set firewall.block.dest=lan

Upvotes: 1

Devidas
Devidas

Reputation: 2517

Good to know that you are using OpenWRT. So there are plenty of packages available in OpenWRT this is feature you requested is also available check this package called tiny proxy I used it it works like a Charm.

Upvotes: 0

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