[kennethhsu]

Sorry if this has already been answered or is posted on the wrong forum.

Hello everyone, I just spend the whole last night reading about dd-wrt and how to enable network wide adblocks. I am following the instructions here https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ad_blocking , and using method 1:

[cybrnook]

In the command you listed above, the parsing of the file is extension agnostic.

To that matter, it doesn't care what the name is, as it's instantly strung into a grep command.

So you could likely just replace the url with your url file of choice, and it should work.

SO:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | grep 0.0.0.0 |


and FYI, the link you added to the guide seems to go nowhere.

[kennethhsu]

Thank you for your reply.

I fixed the link.

I also tried what you suggested, but it doesn't seem to work. Can you possibly know why? How can I try to debug what is going wrong?

[cybrnook]

hmmm, I wonder if its because its an https url, and wget is failing? Maybe using curl instead could work.

Another option is to download the file manually and just staging it when you run the update.

So something like:

instead of:
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | grep 0.0.0.0 |

You could:

/path/to/downloaded/file/hosts | grep 0.0.0.0 |

That could work, at least for the initial implementation. Every subsequent update would need to be done manually like this.


Hmm, try this first:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | grep 0.0.0.0 |

might need the "-" between O and https, not sure

[kennethhsu]

still not working...

so I really think the problem is the httpS... not really sure how to get by that, it works fine on my command line, but when I put it in the router, it won't work

[Krause]

Maybe this will be of some help, but on that guys github comments here https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/47 at the bottom someone called stordoff said that it works great on their ddwrt router and he even gives the code he uses:

Startup script:

[kennethhsu]

FYI, the following works:

[ryanmusante]

Does this tax the CPU on the router much?

Do you disable ad blockers within your web browsers on the clients?

How do you find this works compared to having it disabled and using only built in blockers within your applications?

[NashBlade]

An easy way to test is to use a browser on a phone to visit one of the blocked addresses. I don't disable the adblockers on my desktop clients.

I suspect that modern routers have powerful CPU's (over 1GHz) that can handle VPN connections at high speeds, so DNS lookups in a host file can't be taxing.

[rudderlessrone]