ChinaDNS - Not Running

[alex-ibb]

Backgroud:

Router: Linksys EA8500
OS: OpenWrt 21.02.7 r16847-f8282da11e / LuCI openwrt-21.02 branch git-23.093.57360-e98243e

Problem:

• The web page of ChinaDNS reads ChinaDNS - NOT RUNNING after enabling it and Save & Apply.
• Won't restart the service either after reboot the router

Steps to produce the problems:

1. Flash the router with the OS image
2. Install the packages using the commands below:

wget https://openwrt-dist.sourceforge.net/auto_install.sh
chmod +x auto_install.sh
./auto_install.sh # `Y` for each prompts
opkg install luci-compat
opkg install ip ipset libopenssl iptables-mod-tproxy

3. Login the OpenWrt and configure the ChinaDNS as below: Services-ChinaDNS-General Setting:
   • Enable: checked
   • Enable Bidirectional Filter：checked
   • Listen Port：5353
   • CHNRoute File：/etc/chinadns_chnroute.txt
   • Upstream Servers：114.114.114.114,8.8.4.4
   • Save & Apply

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/config/chinadns reads:

config chinadns
        option chnroute '/etc/chinadns_chnroute.txt'
        option addr '0.0.0.0'
        option port '5353'
        option server '114.114.114.114,8.8.4.4'
        option enable '1'
        option bidirectional '1'

4. Configure DNSmasq

Network - DHCP and DNS - General Settings:

• DNS forwardings: 127.0.0.1#5353
• Save & Apply

Network - DHCP and DNS - Resolv and Hosts Files:

• Ignore resolv file: checked
• Save & Apply

After performing these steps, the ChinaDNS page shows "ChinaDNS - NOT RUNNING". Even after rebooting the router, the issue persists.

Approaches Tried

Manually start

Manually starting the service with chinadns -c /etc/chinadns_chnroute.txt -p 5353 from the OpenWRT terminal seems to work. DNS requests from clients/PCs generate prints.

Check logread

No relevant information was found in the logread output from the OpenWRT terminal.

Switch to newer OpenWRT

Attempting to re-flash the router with newer OS versions, such as openwrt-22.03.5-ipq806x-generic-linksys_ea8500-squashfs-sysupgrade, did not resolve the issue.

Emm... forks, are there any additional factors or considerations that I might have overlooked in this situation? Many thanks ~

[alex-ibb]

/etc/init.d/chinadns enable will fix the problem.