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Once I disabled "Advertise router's IP in addition to user-specified DNS" in the Merlin firmware it appears all traffic now goes to the Pi-Hole(s) rather than sneaking through by using the Asus IP for a DNS. Really wish the stock Asus firmware had a second DNS field and the option to disable using the router as a DNS address.

10.11.2020 · Asus RT-AC68U asuswrt-merlin upgrade to 386.3-2 should be aware of OpenVPN missing .ovpn: Asuswrt-Merlin: 3: Oct 5, 2021: L: Asus Merlin AC68U Open Nat Help: Asuswrt-Merlin: 8: Apr 13, 2021: O: ASUS RT-AC68U Access Point with VLAN for IOT/Guest Wifi: Asuswrt-Merlin: 5: Dec 15, 2021: T: Significant WAN speed drop on Asus RT-AC68U after a few ...

If you have an ASUS router you have the good fortune of being able to use the Merlin image for your router. This image is built on DD-WRT, and exposes a number of really cool features that isn’t always available with vanillas Router OS’. A couple of cool features include: Prevent DNS changes on local…

First make sure the pihole IP is set as default in your dhcp settings. In your router settings go to 'Parental Controls' and 'DNSFilter', set 'Global Filter Mode' to 'Router' and below add your pihole's IP and set it to 'No Filtering' (without this, youre gonna have thousands of queries in …

Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase) - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng. DNSFilter will now drop DOT queries when a client is being bound to a DNSFilter rule, unless the DNSFilter used is known to support DOT (like Quad9), ...

After using Merlin firmware for years and teaching myself the inner workings of how DNS is handled via DNSMASQ etc, I settled on a setup very similar to what you have done as follows: DNSfilter ON - Global = Custom 1 - Pihole IP address. Added exception for Pihole IP (after scratching my head for a while!) LAN1 DNS = empty

22.06.2017 · posted 2017-Jun-21, 8:46 am AEST. O.P. I'm trying to set up an Asus AC68U with Opendns. Here's what I've done so far: 1) Set OpenDNS to Family Shield, ie can be modified. 2) In OpenDNS I've set the Filtering to "Moderate". 3) In Merlin, I've left the WAN DNS Servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. 4) In Merlin AiProtection DNS Filtering, I've set the ...

Any chance for a firmware setting to force *all* DNS traffic to go through the defined DNS servers in WAN settings? For example hard coded DNS requests from ...

You do this via the LAN > DNSFilter settings page. Here you want to turn ON the “Enable DNS-based Filtering” option, choose “Router” as your filter mode, and enter the DNS pairs we provide in your dashboard. Apply the settings and it should reset your connection.

Enhanced version of Asus's router firmware (Asuswrt) (legacy code base) - asuswrt-merlin/dnsfilter.c at master · RMerl/asuswrt-merlin

... now when using the DoT functions natively supported in ASUS Merlin. ... (This happens with or without DNS Filter active; Model AX-88U)

One other setting, when using the Asus-Merlin firmware + Pi-Hole, one should consider enabling is the DNS Filter option. This will supposedly ...

You do this via the LAN > DNSFilter settings page. Here you want to turn ON the “Enable DNS-based Filtering” option, choose “Router” as your filter mode, ...

For simplicity, the following abbreviations are used below: AM380 = Asuswrt-Merlin 380.xxx AM382 = Asuswrt-Merlin 382.xxx Asus380 = Asus's 3.0.0.4.380_xxxx Asus382 = Asus's 3.0.0.4.382_xxxx AM382.1 is based on AM380.68_4 merged on top of a clean 3.0.0.4.382_15098 GPL. At this time, only the RT-AC86U, RT-AC88U and RT-AC3100 are supported by AM382.

However, prior to using pi-hole, I used Asus Merlin's DNSFilter to set the kids' devices to OpenDNS to block unsavory sites, and other sites ...

DNS Filter - RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng Wiki. Under LAN there is a tab called DNSFilter. On this page you can force the use of a specific nameserver (DNS) that ...

Asuswrt-Merlin couldn't make setting up DNS any easier. In the LAN configuration section, there is a tab for DNSFilter.

for asus-merlin its best to use the amtm utility and install dnscrpt and configure to use nextdns DoH works much better than the nextdns-cli and also supports asus dnsfilter which nextdns-cli does not. Like 2 Olivier Poitrey Founder olivier 8 mths ago Qadhi I would not advise running two dns filters concurrently.

With a few rare exceptions, Asuswrt-Merlin retains the features from the original stock Asus firmware. In addition, the following features have been added ...

I followed a thread on reddit and set up DNSFilter and forcing all requests both normal and hardcoded/DNS over HTTPS queries through my ...

I was wondering, is there any reason to opt Asus RT-AC68U Merlin DNSFilter + 2 PiHole's? Asuswrt-Merlin: 83: Nov 9, 2020: R: Merlin: VPN + PiHole/Adguard + ...

DDWRT "DNSFilter" like ASUS Merlin I use ASUS Merlin at home and notice a feature call DNSFilter where regardless of the client's DNS entries are, it forces clients to use whatever it is defined on the ASUS Merlin

Nov 09, 2020 · Nov 9, 2020. #10. VPN on a non-standard port is the only recommended way. " Worst practice" would be enabling the web interface to the WAN. If you have a PC or server on your LAN that is available you have more options there. RT-AX86U - 386.3_2, RT-AC68U/A2 overclocked to 1.2GHz/800MHz - 374.43_49E4j9527.

Pi-hole + Asus Merlin with DNSFilter question Hey everyone - I have a Pi Zero W running Pi-hole that I'm messing around with on my own devices before sending all traffic on the router to the Pi-hole. Is it possible with Asus Merlin firmware to use the built in DNSFilter tab to only send that client's traffic to the Pi-hole as well get the ...

Any device on your network, whether they are trying to use their own DNS or not, will be forced upstream to your Pi-hole because of your DNSFilter rule. Note that even if they are using Firefox's new DoH out of the box, the next build of asuswrt-merlin will fix this and force them down the Pi-hole rabbit hole.