Author: Ed Itor

free domains, simple DDNS, other addr.tools

Freenom stopped domain registrations several months ago. Netcraft has reported a drop in phishing emails blocked with Freenom domains www.netcraft.com/blog/impact-of-freenom-halting-registrations-on-cybercrime/#:~:text=Freenom%2C%20which%20offers%20free%20domain,domain%20registrations%20in%20March%202023 .
Some are looking to other free domain providers such as pp.ua or eu.org nic.eu.org/
dyn.addr.tools has a simple DDNS method
There are other related tools challenges.addr.tools dns-01 ACME challenge helper zone dyn.addr.tools simple dynamic DNS for your own domains, no account required header-echo.addr.tools view HTTP request headers, modify HTTP response headers info.addr.tools explore identifying information for domain names and IP addresses ip.addr.tools construct domain names that resolve to any given IP address myip.addr.tools get your external IP address dnscheck.tools identifies your DNS resolvers, checks DNSSEC validation, and more
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Separate SSID for VPN outbound

It is useful to have an SSID for normally routed traffic and a separate one to connect to for VPN users. With OpenWrt, sometimes there are guides to all the different pieces, but not exactly put together in the way you want. This post does a great job of leveraging existing guides and knitting them all together for the desired solution.
A detailed guide is posted. One of the key steps is the uci set network.wgserver.route_allowed_ips=”1″ change it to uci set network.wgserver.route_allowed_ips=”0″
forum.openwrt.org/t/alternate-ssid-just-for-vpn-traffic/170908

There are some previous posts with similar topics

forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-21-02-1-multiple-vpn-with-multiple-ssid/113640 forum.openwrt.org/t/2-ssid-one-vpnd-one-not/99790 https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/yyhm7i/one_router_one_wireguard_vpn_two_ssids/alter