Recent content by Xentrk

I would just give up on those two providers because of the DNS issue. The topic has come up multiple times on the forum and there is no work around that I am aware of. The only work around that may work is to do what you are doing to get it working with the manual intervention when using the...

You will have to ask NORD and Express if their DNS is dynamic. Maybe one of the other NORD and Express users know????? I've not used them myself. Perhaps it is like Cloudflare? I enter 1.1.1.1 in the config. It then uses a DNS close to my geo end point when I set Accept DNS Config to Disabled...

Check the Enable DNS-based Filtering setting. (LAN->DNS Filter tab). The setting forces all clients to use the DNS of the router. If it is on, it may be preventing the NordVPN app from using Nord DNS. From reports on the forum, it appears that Nord requires that you use their DNS servers. It...

Glad you are still hanging in there. I first started this journey on DD-WRT. eibgrad has many posts and scripts on the DD-WRT forum that helped me learn when I first got into this. Glad to see him jump on snbforms as he has a lot of knowledge. I have not heard of anyone using TOR for...

With the TG dedicated IP, you are the only one using it. As a result, streaming media companies don't flag it as a VPN as they do not see 1,000's of connections coming from the same IP. That is my theory anyway. TG recommends that you only use the private IP for streaming due to the hacks they...

You've confirmed what others have reported about Nord and Express here on the snbforums. Those are the two VPN providers that people always report issues with since they require exclusive use of their DNS to circumvent the VPN blocks. There was a recent thread where some forum users developed a...

If it makes you feel better, I have not been able to figure out Paramount+ (formely CBS All Access) despite my best effort. Lot's of CDN stuff going on. I'm going to switch streaming devices to see if I can get a better handle on where it is failing. NordVPN and ExpressVPN have the most...

Nothing changed in the new version in how dnsmasq.conf.add gets updated. No other reports of the issue have been reported since the major rewrite last summer. If it happens again, look in the system log for clues.

I added your entries to my dnsmasq.conf.add followed by a reboot. No changed after the reboot. I suspect you have another user script or postconf script (dnsmasq.posconf) that is modifying the file. This will list out the files that contain the word dnsmasq.conf.add in the /jffs/scripts...

You want to use the high level names under the IPSET Format heading. These are "query" records. The domains return by the reply records don't need to be included. The IPSET feature of dnsmasq handles that. The reason for listing the FQDN in the report is for a sanity check. For example, I was...

x3mRouting Version 2.4.5 (23 May, 2021) Updates Primary updates are some code revisions that most will not notice. The new feature is the "del=force" parameter and can be used in place of the "del" parameter. See complete description below. x3mRouting.sh + Add new 'del=force' parameter...

I think the error is there are more domain names that you need to specify in addition to nowtv. I saw sky.com listed in the web page source. Please see my comments in the prior post about performing the analysis.

What traffic do you want to route to WAN? VPN Client Bypass Routing is the correct method to use. You can specify any VPN client and the source 0 for WAN as the destination. Most people use it to bypass the VPN for exceptions. For example, they route all LAN traffic thru the VPN client using...

LAN Client devices often have a default DNS configured which takes precedence over router DNS settings. DNS Filter prevents this and forces all LAN clients to use the DNS specified on the WAN page, other DNS providers, or a custom DNS (VPN provider DNS) by device MAC address. You can experiment...

You are using the "Manual" method with the command. x3mRouting is looking for the file containing the IPv4 addresses in /opt/tmp/ITV (unless you specified another directory location) that was manually created and it does not exist. So it throws the error. The manual method is used to create...