Filtering traffic with IP sets by DNS

• This how-to configures traffic filtering with IP sets by DNS on OpenWrt.
• It relies on resolveip and firewall with IP sets to resolve and filter domains.

• Filter LAN client traffic with IP sets by DNS.

Install the required packages. Filter LAN client traffic with firewall and IP sets. Set up IP set extras and Hotplug extras to automatically populate IP sets.

# Install packages
opkg update
opkg install resolveip
 
# Configure IP sets
uci -q delete dhcp.filter
uci set dhcp.filter="ipset"
uci add_list dhcp.filter.name="filter"
uci add_list dhcp.filter.name="filter6"
uci add_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.com"
uci add_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.net"
uci commit dhcp
 
# Filter LAN client traffic with IP sets
for IPV in 4 6
do
uci -q delete firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd="rule"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.name="Filter-IPset-DNS-Forward"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.src="lan"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.dest="wan"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.proto="all"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.family="ipv${IPV}"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.ipset="filter${IPV%4} dest"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.target="REJECT"
done
uci commit firewall
 
# Populate IP sets
ipset setup

Flush DNS cache on the clients and restart the client browser. Verify your client traffic is properly filtered on the router.

Collect and analyze the following information.

# Restart services
/etc/init.d/firewall restart
 
# Runtime configuration
nft list ruleset
 
# Persistent configuration
uci show firewall; crontab -l

If you want to manage the settings using web interface.

• Navigate to LuCI → Network → Firewall → Traffic Rules → Filter-IPset-DNS-Forward to manage firewall rules.
• Navigate to LuCI → Network → DHCP and DNS → IP sets to manage domains.

Add/remove domains to/from the filtering list.

# Add domains
uci add_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.com"
uci add_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.net"
 
# Remove domains
uci del_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.com"
uci del_list dhcp.filter.domain="example.net"
 
# Save and apply
uci commit dhcp
ipset reset

Limit the restriction scope to a specific source MAC address.

# Apply source restriction
for IPV in 4 6
do
uci add_list firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.src_mac="11:22:33:44:55:66"
uci add_list firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.src_mac="aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff"
done
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall restart

Reorder firewall rules and enable time restriction to keep the rules active. Reload kernel timezone to properly apply DST.

# Apply time restriction
for IPV in 4 6
do
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.start_time="21:00:00"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.stop_time="09:00:00"
uci set firewall.filter${IPV%4}_fwd.weekdays="Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri"
done
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall restart

Reorder firewall rules to properly apply time restrictions.

# Reorder firewall rules
cat << "EOF" > /etc/nftables.d/estab.sh
nft list chain inet fw4 forward \
| sed -e "/\sestablished,related\saccept\s/d
/^\s*jump\shandle_reject$/\
i $(nft list chain inet fw4 forward \
| sed -n -e "/\sestablished,related\saccept\s/p")
1i flush chain inet fw4 forward" \
| nft -f -
EOF
uci -q delete firewall.estab
uci set firewall.estab="include"
uci set firewall.estab.path="/etc/nftables.d/estab.sh"
uci commit firewall
/etc/init.d/firewall restart