[Cake] Beating bufferbloat

[Alec Robertson]

Dear All,

I've figured out what's causing it: DNSCrypt! How do I get rid of this!

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Alec Robertson

On 1 May 2016 at 22:30, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <
kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi Alec,
>
> I don't use that build, I roll my own so I don't know if there's
> anything particularly clever with it.  However:  I assume your clients
> are getting IPs via DHCP.  The DHCP server on Openwrt is the truly
> wonderful dnsmasq.  By default, dnsmasq advertises itself as the local
> dns server....that way it can act as a bit of a cache for dns requests
> AND resolve internally handled DHCP addresses for you.  Dnsmasq will
> also do DNSSEC validation on your clients behalf too.
>
> If you really want to hand out dns server address 'direct' to your
> clients and avoid all the caching/resolving goodness of dnsmasq then
> take a look at
> http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/docs/dnsmasq-man.html and the
> '--dhcp-option' defaults.  They can be overridden, indeed you can
> specify 'dhcp-options' via the luci gui (network-interfaces-lan-dhcp
> server->advanced settings'
>
> Hopefully that helps.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 01/05/16 19:23, Alec Robertson wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I know this isn’t directly related to bufferbloat but you all seem to
> > be experts on OpenWRT so I thought I’d ask my question here anyway.
> >
> > I’ve installed the OpenWRT build from here
> > - https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50914 - and it’s working
> > well except for the fact that I can’t seem to set custom DNS servers
> > on the clients. Or rather I can set them but the router seems to
> > overrride them. How can I disable this? Is this special to this build
> > or does OpenWRT always do this?
> >
> > —
> > Alec Robertson.
> >
> >
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