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

[Xentrk]

What about your pfSense box? Any interference from it?

It is not online at the moment. It is tucked away taking a rest.

 

[Xentrk]

Could my email.cfg permissions be the issue. I don't see a read bit set for "other"

 

[thelonelycoder]

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Could my email.cfg permissions be the issue. I don't see a read bit set for "other"

No, permission on that file are set to that on purpose. It's sensitive info in it.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Appears to be an issue with Username and Password.

Ahh, there you go. Good luck finding it as the link postet goes to a dead page, tried it with my account.

 

[Xentrk]

Ahh, there you go. Good luck finding it as the link postet goes to a dead page, tried it with my account.

I removed the first post as I had my IP listed. Ouch. At least we are on to something

I typed it in manually. The link takes me to the gmail help center page.

 

[thelonelycoder]

I removed the first post as I had my IP listed. Ouch. At least we are on to something

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Check again your "Allow less secure apps: ON".

 

[thelonelycoder]

I removed the first post as I had my IP listed. Ouch. At least we are on to something

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I typed it in manually. The link takes me to the gmail help center page.

And google, some relevant suggestions may help related to gmail smtp:

sendmail 535 5.7.8

 

[Xentrk]

Check again your "Allow less secure apps: ON".

Solved!

It is fixed now and I have stats email in my newly created gmail account!! Woo Hoo!

It was looking at the email.cfg file after my last post and that rang the bell. Rather than typing my gmail account name sans the @gmail.com in the User Name field option 2, I had entered my First_Name <space> Last_Name. I guess it is getting late in my time zone and I started getting goofy. Seeing it as AUTH=First_Name <space> Last_Name in the email.cfg really made the issue stand out.

I think creating the new email account with no periods and setting "Allow less secure apps: ON" is the trick. And of course, making sure option 2 on the email credentials menu is the gmail account name sans the @gmail.com. Here is me feeling embarrassed I had it set this way at first but must have changed it during our iterations of trying different things. Here are my email stats

Router Stats Fri Dec 30 07:02:46 2016
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RT-AC88U Firmware-380.64 @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Compiled by AB-Solution 3 | Stats version 3.0
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Ad-Blocking stats:
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566'011 domains are blocked
47'474 ads in total blocked
47'474 ads this week, since last Monday
44 new ads, since Dec 30 06:02
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I wanted this to work so I can share with friends and family what a great solution this is by simply forwarding the stats in a simple email. So now I can.

Thanks again TheLonelyCoder, you are awesome!

 

[thelonelycoder]

It was looking at the email.cfg file after my last post and that rang the bell. Rather than typing my gmail account name sans the @gmail.com, I had entered my First_Name <space> Last_Name. I guess it is getting late in my time zone and I started getting goofy.

Me wonders why I added some helpful text in the UI when entering the credentials....
Good night to you.

 

[duffydack]

Any idea why it's forwarding my local hosts upstream. That setting is not on in router either, never has been.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Any idea why it's forwarding my local hosts upstream. That setting is not on in router either, never has been.

Set LAN / DHCP Server 'Forward local domain queries to upstream DNS' to NO.

 

[tomsk]

I think creating the new email account with no periods and setting "Allow less secure apps: ON" is the trick. And of course, making sure option 2 on the email credentials menu is the gmail account name sans the @gmail.com.

My email account has a period in it and works fine, so i don't think that was the issue. Most likely caused by the username mistake...although strangely , you had that right in your original post #773

 

[duffydack]

Set LAN / DHCP Server 'Forward local domain queries to upstream DNS' to NO.

It is. Always has been.

 

[duffydack]

Having trouble pasting the logs, cloudflare blocking me (bloody CF)..
https://ptpb.pw/cnzC pasted here. I guess it's nothing.

 

[tomsk]

Having trouble pasting the logs, cloudflare blocking me (bloody CF)..
https://ptpb.pw/cnzC pasted here. I guess it's nothing.

Have you got Ipv6 enabled?

 

[thelonelycoder]

Having trouble pasting the logs, cloudflare blocking me (bloody CF)..
https://ptpb.pw/cnzC pasted here. I guess it's nothing.

Have you got Ipv6 enabled?

It sure is, but I wonder why it goes upstream?
What is the content of /etc /hosts.dnsmasq? And are IPv6 DNS Server's set? I have mine blank.

 

[duffydack]

Have you got Ipv6 enabled?

The ipv6 connection = disable.

 

[duffydack]

hosts.dnsmasq contains all my local hosts. All my devices are dhcp but mac assigned.

 

[thelonelycoder]

The ipv6 connection = disable.

Interesting, AAAA is IPv6.
Any clues in the /etc/dnsmasq.conf?

 

[tomsk]

Interesting, AAAA is IPv6.
Any clues in the /etc/dnsmasq.conf?

yes thats why i asked.... i have a similar setup to @duffydack but when i query a local host i only get the A name query and not the AAAA one