how can i adblock on rt-ac56u?

[critical]

how can i adblock on rt-ac56u?

thanks!

 

[thelonelycoder]

Look at this Thread by Xerxist.
This blocks on hosts level. I have an advanced version of this running on my RT-AC66U.
It should work on yours too.

 

[L&LD]

What does the advanced version do?

 

[thelonelycoder]

I use three well maintained hosts files:
- http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
- http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php
- http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

They are stripped of all the comments and unnecessary entries, combined into one file and then duplicates are removed. All done with sed and awk on the router. Auto-update is once per week.

So far it works very well.
If anyone is interested I could post my solution.

 

[L&LD]

I would be very interested, thanks!

 

[sinshiva]

yea, that would be great. thanks!

 

[RMerlin]

Having such a large host file will most likely negatively impact the router performance. I recommend going with a solution based on ipset instead.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Having such a large host file will most likely negatively impact the router performance.

The hosts file is 728 KB, a tad larger then the single ones. I notice no slow down. Looking at output of "top" in a shell makes me hopeful this is a lasting solution.

I have postet my findings here.

 

[sinshiva]

Having such a large host file will most likely negatively impact the router performance. I recommend going with a solution based on ipset instead.

so, to use ipset, it looks like you need to resolve the (potentially very large) list of FQDNs first. and you'd have to schedule this to happen periodically. and have it setup to get every IP attached to a FQDN.

i'm always for better performance, but i haven't noticed any trouble with large hosts files. think i'm going to pass on this, unless i'm missing something

 

[r00t4rd3d]

I like this method cause you can do it for specific clients.

https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-me...to-provide-advertisement-filtering-to-devices

 

[RMerlin]

so, to use ipset, it looks like you need to resolve the (potentially very large) list of FQDNs first. and you'd have to schedule this to happen periodically. and have it setup to get every IP attached to a FQDN.

i'm always for better performance, but i haven't noticed any trouble with large hosts files. think i'm going to pass on this, unless i'm missing something

It's possible that dnsmasq is hiding the performance hit by caching the content of the host file in an internal format, so the performance penalty might not be visible unless you started to benchmark name resolutions.

ipset does require indeed that you have IPs instead of hostnames. If you can find any csv blocklist that contains those IPs, it can be trivial to update ipset through a script - similar to how ryzhov_al is using ipset to block IP ranges belonging to certain countries. The benefit of this however is that you can potentially easily block an advertiser's whole IP block, instead of having multiple IPs for each of their servers (adserver1.blah.com, adserver2.blah.com, etc...)