I moved all my servers at home over to their own profile in #NextDNS. They no longer go through my local #Blocky instance. Other devices (desktops, laptops, mobile devices, etc...) seem to be loading services much quicker now.

In den letzten Tagen wurde eine Blockliste geteilt, dass die Webseiten vom Axel Springer Konzern geblockt werden.

Habe die endlich mal zu meinem Werbeblocker #blocky hinzugefügt. Dazu auch mal einen Blogbeitrag (https://teqqy.de/3-dns-blocklisten-fuer-pihole-adguard-oder-blocky/ ) damit aktualisiert.

https://github.com/autinerd/anti-axelspringer-hosts

Today I found #Blocky. A cool #PiHole alternative that is available in the nix packages. I configure Blocky, integrate it into Grafana and find that I can't edit the DHCP Server in my plastic router. Now I'm sitting here and looking at how I can build my own #NixOS router. Typical course of projects. -.-

Note to self: When converting a Kubernetes cluster with Cilium as CNI to replace MetalLB with Cilium's new L2 announcements, you need to tweak some settings in your Cilium installation. Especially enabling Cilium to act as a kube-proxy replacement (if you are not already doing so) and enabling the l2 announcements. Which means kube-proxy needs to be disabled in k3s.

In other words: k3s on my Raspi4 is now providing a loadbalancer to blocky using Cilium's L2 announcements...

Dimitri Herzog released #blocky version 0.25. https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/

Add some charm to your coffee table with this adorable Snow Blocky Charm coaster! Link: RedBubble #redbubble #art #snow #winter #coasters #homedecor #cute #blocky

#networking #blocky #adblock #sbc #tailscale #dns

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/my-network-wide-bullshit-blocking-setup/

Spanish version at the end:

I'm resurrecting an old raspberry pi and now i'm wondering about what are the alternatives to #pihole and what are their advantages / disadvantages.

I was aware about #pfsense
+ #pfblockerNG but checking now internet I found #technitius and #blocky.

I plan also to deploy a vpn, wireguard if possible and if not, the old openvpn and setup wake on lan for the main server at home.

Do you tested any of the alternatives i mentioned or are you aware of something even better?

What are your thouhgts about them?

Thanks!

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Estoy resucitando una vieja raspberry pi y me planteo que alternativas hay a pihole.
Ya con conocía pfsense y acabo de descubrir technitius y blocky.

Además de un bloqueador de publicidad planeo instalar una vpn, probablemente wireguard si es posible y si no la vieja y confiable openvpn y configurar wake on lan para encender el servidor principal de mi casa.

¿Habés probado alguna de las alternativas o conocéis algo mejor?
¿Tenéis alguna recomendación?

¡Gracias de antemano!

Cool. Somehow #nextdns is not resolving the archive.is-family correctly anymore. There are even some issues opened on their help center without any reaction.

Maybe I should host my own #blocky now?

Issues:
https://help.nextdns.io/t/y4ytb4b/archive-ph-today-is-etc-resolve-to-unreachable-ips
https://help.nextdns.io/t/60yt2nm/nextdns-blocking-archive-pages
https://help.nextdns.io/t/h7hvj4n/help-with-archive-today

Blocky:
https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/

Pihole on Freebsd? noGo and it is limited compared to Blocky
So a bit of searching did the trick:

I setup Blocky Grafana Prometheus node-exporter and more on a Freebsd jail to block ads / get insight into my network (and peers).

I used these guides and they helped me a lot: thanks to the authors!

Monitoring setup:
https://mostly-bsd.github.io/post/monitoring/
Blocky
https://riesinger.dev/posts/ha-dns-adblocking-with-blocky/
Dashboard for Blocky (and postgres):
https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/17996-blocky-postgres/

dummy screenshots ;)

и зачем мне дашборды?)

New kid on the #Blocky: Adblocker für das Heimnetz. Hat das jemand statt Pihole oder Adguard im Einsatz und kann kurz von Erfahrungen berichten? https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/main/

Are you looking for blocklists to feed your ad blocker tools? Then take a look here:

"The Big Blocklist Collection"

https://firebog.net/

#blocky #tree #experiment #pixelart

By #TwitchSteel

I couldn't leave well enough alone in the #homelab I put #dnsdist back in the mix balancing 2 #coredns servers for my services based on source and then the rest going to #blocky. I gotta set vrrp with one more instance of dns dist and I got so much overkill of DNS for no for fucking reason!

I'm not exactly sure how I got here! I been trying to figure out my DNS infra for some damn reason. It's DNS who the fuck cares. I can't let it go!

I just want to exercise my second DNS server, cause it's just there. So lets put #dnsdist in front of it, solid!. It gave me a promfana endpoint to see shit. Dope! Then I'm like I want that for my DNS servers! Insert #coredns. It's coo! Fast! Easy to use! Ad blocking, not so much. Insert #blocky. Ok WTF is going on!

Been banging my head to see if #distdns would pass the EDNS source ip to my bakend dns servers in the #homelab and I can't seem to get it to work. I'm also trying out #blocky which seems cool.. I'm not sure If I like it yet or not.

So I wanted to install #blocky on #FreeBSD . Oh look! It works with #Prometheus and #PostgreSQL. Huh, my monitoring psql instance is still 15.x, need to update that. Let me get my psql notes from my #OrgRoam archive. Weird, something isn't loading. Oh crap, looks like an #emacs package isn't installed right... quick, let me reinstall my packages again just to make sure. Wow, I need to fix up my #emacs config now, I see some bad settings.

Um, what was I doing again?