SOLVED: Help: Diversion, DNSCrypt-Proxy; client exclusion

[gspannu]

Need some assistance with my setup..

RT-AX88U running Diversion & DNSCrypt-Proxy

Requirements:
- All of my clients to go through DNSCrypt & Diversion Ad-Blocking
- 2 of my clients to totally bypass Diversion, but still use DNSCrypt.

On searching the forums and Diversion website; there is a suggested solution listed on Diversion FAQ here
.... It says that I set the DNS to 8.8.8.8, ... but I want the excluded clients to still use DNSCrypt-Proxy

Spoiler: Copied from Diversion FAQ

How to exclude a client from ad-blocking
In your router Web-UI, go to DNS-Filtering
- set 'Enable DNS-based Filtering' to ON
- set 'Global Filter Mode' to 'NO filtering'
- fill in 'Custom (user-defined) DNS 1' with, for example, Google's DNS 8.8.8.8
- select your client(s) in the Client List and set 'Filter Mode' 'Custom 1'
- click Apply

Now the client(s) in the Client list get the DNS from google and not from your router.

Q: What settings do I put in the DNS Filter section (or elsewhere)?

Seeking advise...

 

[dave14305]

I think in general terms you need DNSCrypt-Proxy to also listen on a secondary LAN address (e.g. 192.168.50.2:53) and put that 50.2 address in DNSFilter as a custom entry. I don't use DNSCrypt to tell you how, but if you go to that thread and ask @SomeWhereOverTheRainBow or @Zastoff for help, I'm sure they could better than I.

 

[gspannu]

I think in general terms you need DNSCrypt-Proxy to also listen on a secondary LAN address (e.g. 192.168.50.2:53) and put that 50.2 address in DNSFilter as a custom entry. I don't use DNSCrypt to tell you how, but if you go to that thread and ask @SomeWhereOverTheRainBow or @Zastoff for help, I'm sure they could better than I.

Thank you, I will check the DNSCrypt-proxy.toml file and see what is the IP address listed there and see if this works. My guess is that the IP address listed there will be 127.0.0.0:53 - so don't understand how this will work.

In addition, I have also posted in the thread you suggested and asked the 2 giants for help.

 

[gspannu]

SOLVED:
Read from here to here.

Thank you to both @SomeWhereOverTheRainBow & @dave14305