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Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md

27 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 25 comments · first 2014-10-02 · latest 2025-02-06

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  1. …For example, the initscript for sstp-client disables certificate validation unconditionally, see https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/25212
    comment by patrakov · 2025-02-06 · in OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
  2. …It appears that there are AdBlock packages available for OpenWRT[1]. [0] https://nextdns.io [1] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by coffeeri · 2024-10-28 · in Ask HN: What ist your AdBlock strategy?
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    Openwrt working on moving to Alpine Package Manager (APK)
    story by InitEnabler · 2024-08-31 · 1 comment
  4. …you are able to reference an external script for captive portal auto-logins (see example below)" https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/travelma... It can also auto join open networks "automatically add open uplinks to your…
    comment by andreasha · 2024-03-28 · in Hotel Hotspot Hijinks
  5. For travel routers there’s travelmate for OpenWrt https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/travelma...
    comment by andreasha · 2024-03-25 · in Hotel Hotspot Hijinks
  6. …and is not so useful for connections that have a stable, fixed bandwidth. speedtest-netperf.sh: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/speedtes... : opkg install speedtest-netperf speedtest-netperf.sh [-4 | -6] [-H…
    comment by westurner · 2023-08-27 · in MOOC: Reducing Internet Latency: Why and How
  7. There is much "probing" from "tech" companies like Google and Apple. You should try running NetGuard on Android, block everything and observe what tries to connect. It is one thing to use DoH if port 53 is being filtered, but that is a…
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2022-12-14 · in Shutting down our unencrypted public DNS service
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    DNS based ad/abuse domain blocking
    story by behnamoh · 2022-10-09 · 6 comments
  9. There is a fuller list of broken packages and their status over here: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/16818
    comment by molticrystal · 2022-09-06 · in OpenWrt 22.03
  10. For 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…
    comment by ronjouch · 2022-05-29 · in Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
  11. …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
    comment by ayushnix · 2022-03-24 · in If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
  12. …but its possible that many OpenWRT users using default settings are actually pinging 8.8.8.8 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/mwan3/fi...
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2021-09-28 · in Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking
  13. I'm an OpenWrt hawk, they have a plugin for DNS based blocking if you end up going that direction https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by 0x000000E2 · 2021-05-09 · in PfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package
  14. …I searched for "Lora" in OpenWRT/packages: lora-gateway-hal opkg package: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/lora-gat... lora-packet-forwarder opkg package (w/ UCI integration): https://github.com/openwrt/packages/p
    comment by westurner · 2020-03-31 · in LoRa+WiFi ClusterDuck Protocol by Project OWL for Disaster Relief
  15. …openwrt/openwrt: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt openwrt/packages: https://github.com/openwrt/packages openwrt/openwrt/search?q="usign" https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/search?q=usign
    comment by pkgsupplysec · 2020-02-02 · in OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
  16. …solution as a pi-hole (DNS-based blocking). As far as I know, the most common and maintained is https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/... . It's easy to install, full-featured, ships with lots of lists to pick from,…
    comment by ronjouch · 2020-01-23 · in “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”
  17. The UI is not, the actual package is: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/10535
    comment by poitrus · 2019-11-15 · in OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
  18. There is two PRs, the UI is not merge, the deamon is: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/10535
    comment by poitrus · 2019-11-15 · in OpenWRT will natively support NextDNS in upcoming 19.07.0 release
  19. …processor, RAM, and flash). Most cheap routers wouldn't work. If you are a savvy OpenWrt user see: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/lang/node-mo... The Turris OS that runs on Omnia is a customized OpenWrt build that lets a…
    comment by kgiori · 2019-07-29 · in Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware
  20. …to do anything you want. https://pi-hole.net/ https://openwrt.org/packages/pkgdata/adblock (see: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/adblock/... ) https://www.privoxy.org http://www.squidguard.org…
    comment by dredmorbius · 2019-05-30 · in Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users
  21. …same technical solution (DNS-based blocking). As far as I know, the most common and maintained is https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/... . Super easy to install, full-featured, lots of lists to pick from,…
    comment by ronjouch · 2019-05-30 · in Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
  22. …will lose out on the statistics that Pi-hole collects. [1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts [2] https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by icecube · 2019-05-28 · in iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and research firms
  23. Yeah, on openwrt you just install the adblock package https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by class4behavior · 2018-09-26 · in Mmm, Pi-hole
  24. If you run OpenWRT/LEDE on your home router, you can just install this package: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by kevlar1818 · 2018-08-07 · in Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
  25. If you're using OpenWRT/Lede you can implement this with the adblock package: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/...
    comment by tedcrilly · 2018-03-02 · in Firefox Configuration Guide for Privacy Freaks and Performance Buffs
  26. …in the last day. That doesn't sound like a dead project to me. https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt https://github.com/openwrt/packages I get that there is some strife, but calling OpenWRT dead would appear to be very very premature. FWIW I…
    comment by AndyMcConachie · 2016-12-06 · in Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?
  27. …not updated since 2012. I see on the web Entware being mentioned and I see now OpenWrt announces https://github.com/openwrt/packages which are, as far as I understood, the sources, not the binaries. Anybody has a good story about what's…
    comment by acqq · 2014-10-02 · in OpenWrt BarrierBreaker 14.07