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DNS based ad/abuse domain blocking
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThere is a fuller list of broken packages and their status over here:
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/16818
In OpenWrt 22.03For OpenWRT users, there's even simpler: use the "adblock" and "luci-app-adblock" packages :) .
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/adblock/...
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/ad-blocking
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/adblock-support-thread/507
In Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network fasterWhich is why I installed openssh-server on my OpenWrt hosts. However, due to a bug [0] in openssh-server package in the latest 21.02.2 release of OpenWrt, OpenSSH doesn't allow you to login in failsafe mode on an OpenWrt host. Because my OpenWrt host lacked a recovery mode, it was essentially soft bricked.
I was able to recover it using the serial port but even after all this, the comfort of using SSH certificates on all of my nodes was enough to keep making me use it instead of Dropbear.
[0]: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/17833
In If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)