Does the unmatched parenthesis around the filename bother anyone else, or is it just me?

Me too Siri, we should’ve both stayed in bed under a blanket today

You could try ZeroTier. I’ve not used it personally, but it’s free if you host your own instance. Your traffic gets routed through that VM, and everything behaves like it’s on the same LAN

One other thing I forgot is to verify a LAN device can ping the router IP, but I’m guessing you’ve already verified that. This is starting to sound like a FW issue

It’s been years since I setup my openwrt router, but here is some advice verifying your FW config

tl;dr Your WAN interface may be defined as ‘wan’ in your FW rules, since ‘WAN’ != ‘wan’ - correcting the case may solve the issue

Off the top of my head, this is low hanging fruit:

• Verify your LAN devices are pulling dhcp or alternatively put a static IP on one of them
• Verify the/a correct default gateway is set on the LAN side (should be the internal IP of your router)
• Verify DNS (ping 1.1.1.1 from a LAN device, if you can, then make sure you’ve configured DNS servers for the LAN side within the router)

• ping or mtr your router and verify there are no dropped packets (ex: ping 192.168.0.1 or mtr 192.168.0.1 where 192.168.0.1 is your router’s IP)
• ping or mtr a public IP (ex: Cloudflare’s DNS server: ping 1.1.1.1)
• ping or mtr a fqdn (ping www.google.com)

If you can ping your local router with no dropped packets, your local network is probably fine

If you can’t ping 1.1.1.1, then there is an issue between your router and the Internet. Look at the output of mtr to see if/where there is packet loss

If you can ping 1.1.1.1, but not www.google.com then your issue may be DNS. Verify your DNS server IPs

*If you don’t know your router’s IP, try ‘route -n’ and the default gateway should be the non 0.0.0.0 entry under the Gateway column, usually it’s in the first line

If your browser supports uBlock Origin you can use it to block an instance. Basically just add something like this under ‘My Filters’:

lemmy.one##.post-listing:has-text(@hexbear.net)

Where ‘lemmy.one’ is the instance you’re browsing from, and ‘@hexbear.net’ is the instance you wish to block. The ‘@’ prefix is necessary

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