hi,

is it possible that I somehow got on a blacklist of openwrt.org? I can ping openwrt.org but not access it via browser. Eventually I managed to get here by using a vpn-client that gives me a different ip. Because my provider always assigns the same ip-address to me, I don't see a different way to reach openwrt.org. What else could be the problem, if there is no such blacklist, or what can I do to get off that list?

A few days ago I installed a dd-wrt on my router and had problems with updating my package list for my package manager "ipkg".
I just tried: "ipkg update" but the download failed with timeout. Now I figured out, that ipkg update is trying to wget the package list from "downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/packages/Packages" without success. For some reason I just cannot wget anything from openwrt.org, nor can I browse it. Only "ping openwrt.org" does work.

Thanks for your help or any hint!

thassilo

The server has been moved recently so I would guess it is a problem with your DNS cache not being updated, or even your upstream DNS server not having been updated yet.

hey,

wow and thanks! This was really helpful!

With vpn-connection enabled, I got the following:

ping openwrt.org
Ping openwrt.org [78.24.191.177] mit 32 Bytes Daten:
...

and without vpn-connection:

ping openwrt.org
Ping openwrt.org [195.56.146.238] mit 32 Bytes Daten:
...

So now I see that 78.24.191.177 is the correct ip-address which I can also reach without the vpn-connection.

BUT - I still don't know how to access "downloads.openwrt.org/...", because "downloads.78.24.191.177/..." obviously doesn't work.

I am a n00b at this, so maybe my next ideas are nonsense...

I changed the order of the two nameserver addresses in /tmp/resolv.dnsmasq and in order to clear the DNS cache and re-read the config files I run the command:

killall -1 dnsmasq

Nothing happened. Is it possible that my provider is using an old dns cache? And if yes - what can I do??

thx!!

thassilo

You can try adding 78.24.191.177 to your hosts file - /etc/hosts

Alternatively wait a while and your upstream DNS servers will update themselves. Some cache old addresses for up to a week so it could take a while. It is always a pain to access sub domains after DNS updates so to be honest I would just keep trying to access it periodically and eventually it will work...