Diversion Diversion - the Router Ad-Blocker

[ludespeedny]

So I have an odd one, the other day we had a power outage and when the power came back up, diversion wasn't working. So I wiped my flash drive and did a firmware update while at it. Then used amtm to format the flash drive and install diversion. Now I keep getting segmentation faults whenever I try to run anything. Do I need to reset the router to defaults and start over?

 

[#TY]

Because it is cached, by the router, OS and browser.
Clear your caches for such actions.
It used to be that when one CTRL-F5es in Firefox that would request all sources new. Not anymore in my experience. I don't know what the FF devs are on but this browser is getting on my nerves lately. And I've been a steadfast user and supporter since the early beginnings.

I've gone back to using Safari on macOS Catalina. It's much faster and runs much smoother. Not sure what they're tinkering with at FireFox, but its starting to feel like patch work.

 

[thelonelycoder]

So I have an odd one, the other day we had a power outage and when the power came back up, diversion wasn't working. So I wiped my flash drive and did a firmware update while at it. Then used amtm to format the flash drive and install diversion. Now I keep getting segmentation faults whenever I try to run anything. Do I need to reset the router to defaults and start over?

Try downloading all Diversion files, enter 1233 to do that.
If the error still persists, use the disk check in amtm. You'll best reboot the router for it to run.
If it corrected errors, run the 1233 function again.

 

[ludespeedny]

Try downloading all Diversion files, enter 1233 to do that.
If the error still persists, use the disk check in amtm. You'll best reboot the router for it to run.
If it corrected errors, run the 1233 function again.

Do I enter 1233 in amtm or in diversion?

 

[Asad Ali]

Do I enter 1233 in amtm or in diversion?

Diversion.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I think I'm going to add a new hosts list provider in the predefined lists in b.
I've been using the "Amazing/Sensational/Remarkable/Revolutionary #1 Blocklist" for a few days that I came across in a Pi-Hole post.
I should not promote large hosts lists but this one seems to be carefully maintained. I have had no problems so far with my apps, devices or browsers usage since I enabled it.

Anyone want to test it out and comment on the experience?
Note that this or any other hosts list will NOT block YouTube ads.

The hosts file contains more than 791,000 domains, the file size after processing is about 16.3 MB. As I said, it's large.
ONLY use it on a powerful router such as the AC86U, AX88U or at the minimum on a 68U/1900P. Use a swap file too.

Use this URL or any of the mirrors in the "Main list (hosts-format)" download section in this reddit post.
Add it in b, 1, 2, removing any other URLs you may have there for the full benefit of this "Sensational" hosts file. I'm not kidding.

https://hosts.oisd.nl

 

[Marin]

I think I'm going to add a new hosts list provider in the predefined lists in b.
I've been using the "Amazing/Sensational/Remarkable/Revolutionary #1 Blocklist" for a few days that I came across in a Pi-Hole post.
I should not promote large hosts lists but this one seems to be carefully maintained. I have had no problems so far with my apps, devices or browsers usage since I enabled it.

Anyone want to test it out and comment on the experience?
Note that this or any other hosts list will NOT block YouTube ads.

The hosts file contains more than 791,000 domains, the file size after processing is about 16.3 MB. As I said, it's large.
ONLY use it on a powerful router such as the AC86U, AX88U or at the minimum on a 68U/1900P. Use a swap file too.

Use this URL or any of the mirrors in the "Main list (hosts-format)" download section in this reddit post.
Add it in b, 1, 2, removing any other URLs you may have there for the full benefit of this "Sensational" hosts file. I'm not kidding.

https://hosts.oisd.nl

I did add this host list but somehow I have an issue updating the block list - cannot tell if this URL is from this block list or not:

          processing file 1 of 12
 remote file newer: getting new hosts file
 http://support.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/hosts.txt
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10002 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 1 seconds. 3 retries left.
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10001 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries left.

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[Marin]

I did add this host list but somehow I have an issue updating the block list - cannot tell if this URL is from this block list or not:

          processing file 1 of 12
 remote file newer: getting new hosts file
 http://support.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/hosts.txt
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10002 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 1 seconds. 3 retries left.
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10001 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries left.

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No it is not part of that list but a separate one under my custom list of hosts. The site must be down, will try later again.


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[thelonelycoder]

I did add this host list but somehow I have an issue updating the block list - cannot tell if this URL is from this block list or not:

          processing file 1 of 12
 remote file newer: getting new hosts file
 http://support.it-mate.co.uk/downloads/hosts.txt
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10002 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 1 seconds. 3 retries left.
curl: (28) Connection timed out after 10001 millisecondsWarning: Transient problem: timeout Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries left.

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That is a mirror of https://hosts-file.net, which seems to be down. Not the first time. In fact, that file you are requesting seems to be deprecated. Another reason to use my proposed hosts file above.
Again, to benefit from that new hosts file, remove any other URLs you have in there, else their careful selection is moot. But do keep the + files if you have Skynet installed.

 

[Marin]

That is a mirror of https://hosts-file.net, which seems to be down. Not the first time. In fact, that file you are requesting seems to be deprecated. Another reason to use my proposed hosts file above.
Again, to benefit from that new hosts file, remove any other URLs you have in there, else their careful selection is moot. But do keep the + files if you have Skynet installed.

Sounds good will do. Thank you!


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[Mutzli]

https://hosts.oisd.nl

You're not kidding about taking up more space. I have now 2.4million domains blocked with this new list and my other lists.

 

[HairyA00]

I think I'm going to add a new hosts list provider in the predefined lists in b.
I've been using the "Amazing/Sensational/Remarkable/Revolutionary #1 Blocklist" for a few days that I came across in a Pi-Hole post.
I should not promote large hosts lists but this one seems to be carefully maintained. I have had no problems so far with my apps, devices or browsers usage since I enabled it.

Anyone want to test it out and comment on the experience?
Note that this or any other hosts list will NOT block YouTube ads.

The hosts file contains more than 791,000 domains, the file size after processing is about 16.3 MB. As I said, it's large.
ONLY use it on a powerful router such as the AC86U, AX88U or at the minimum on a 68U/1900P. Use a swap file too.

Use this URL or any of the mirrors in the "Main list (hosts-format)" download section in this reddit post.
Add it in b, 1, 2, removing any other URLs you may have there for the full benefit of this "Sensational" hosts file. I'm not kidding.

https://hosts.oisd.nl

Unless you were using a high-powered Pi (Pi3 B+ for example), using millions of hosts really started to consume memory and started to require using a fan (on a RPi). I always kept with Pi-hole's default blocklist and a short list of regex: https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.list

We already had the regex discussion; the Pi-hole team's fork of dnsmasq supports it due to work that they did.

Perhaps this is all anecdotal, but I always preferred the shorter hosts list while having regex do all the heavy lifting. Just my two cents.

 

[thelonelycoder]

You're not kidding about taking up more space. I have now 2.4million domains blocked with this new list and my other lists.

The AX88U is the new beast, along with the previously-known-as-beast 86U. Both are great routers, though the 86U is deprecated to being my main development router.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Unless you were using a high-powered Pi (Pi3 B+ for example), using millions of hosts really started to consume memory and started to require using a fan (on a RPi). I always kept with Pi-hole's default blocklist and a short list of regex: https://github.com/mmotti/pihole-regex/blob/master/regex.list

We already had the regex discussion; the Pi-hole team's fork of dnsmasq supports it due to work that they did.

Perhaps this is all anecdotal, but I always preferred the shorter hosts list while having regex do all the heavy lifting. Just my two cents.

We have pixelserv-tls, PiHole has the better Dnsmasq. Win-Win.

 

[HairyA00]

We have pixelserv-tls, PiHole has the better Dnsmasq. Win-Win.

I've moved over to Diversion full-time for now, with pixelserv-tls disabled due to random things deciding not to work (newest one is a certificate error with syncing SplashID locally). My one client that needs 'parental controls' now goes upstream here via DNSFilter: 176.103.130.132 (https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html).

The convenience of having no extra appliances outweighs my ability to use regex (for now). I am willing to try whatever you make the new Standard+ as always, but that "sensational" list always scared me (maybe it's unwarranted).

I am super interested in privacy and am aching to try that dnscrypt anonymizer that I posted in the other thread, but want to wait until it's out of beta (since I had some issues with beta1). I saw the amtm update which is awesome, but was also curious if we'd ever have a one-click installer for anonymizer fully config'ed

 

[ludespeedny]

Try downloading all Diversion files, enter 1233 to do that.
If the error still persists, use the disk check in amtm. You'll best reboot the router for it to run.
If it corrected errors, run the 1233 function again.

Just ran that and got errors. I will reboot shortly so amtm will do a disk check.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Just ran that and got errors. I will reboot shortly so amtm will do a disk check.

Now you have a DNS issue, my server is online, which your router seems not to see.

 

[bluepoint]

I think I'm going to add a new hosts list provider in the predefined lists in b.
I've been using the "Amazing/Sensational/Remarkable/Revolutionary #1 Blocklist" for a few days that I came across in a Pi-Hole post.
I should not promote large hosts lists but this one seems to be carefully maintained. I have had no problems so far with my apps, devices or browsers usage since I enabled it.

Anyone want to test it out and comment on the experience?
Note that this or any other hosts list will NOT block YouTube ads.

The hosts file contains more than 791,000 domains, the file size after processing is about 16.3 MB. As I said, it's large.
ONLY use it on a powerful router such as the AC86U, AX88U or at the minimum on a 68U/1900P. Use a swap file too.

Use this URL or any of the mirrors in the "Main list (hosts-format)" download section in this reddit post.
Add it in b, 1, 2, removing any other URLs you may have there for the full benefit of this "Sensational" hosts file. I'm not kidding.

https://hosts.oisd.nl

1.202M Is this okay?

 

[thelonelycoder]

1.202M Is this okay?

Yup, 1.229M here with the AX88U happily idling along. RAM at just over 60%. Excellent what these routers can do.

 

[Asad Ali]

Do you guys really need all these domains blocked for your home network? Isn't it best if one can curate thier own list depending on their specific network usage? I'm pretty sure no one will use all the blocked domains such large lists provides and in my opinion it's a wastage of resources.