DNSSEC And Wildcarding Available In Pi-hole Core 2.12 / Web 2.4
We are happy to release another new version of Pi-hole (Core and Web). Your support and contributions have helped it become a reality. This release includes several fixes and tweaks, which you can read about on changes.pi-hole.net. We have also added some new features.
DNSSEC
You requested it and we implemented it. Once enabled, there is a link you can click that will check to see if it is working.
Wildcard Blacklisting
This has been an oft-requested feature, and may prove useful for blocking YouTube ads. You can use this new blacklisting feature with the pihole -wild
option. So if you wanted to block all of bannerflow.com:
pihole -wild bannerflow.com
pihole -wild -d bannerflow.com
Related Feature
You can also now paste in space-delimited domains to be added to the white/black from the Web interface.
logrotate
We implemented a new flushing routine using the logrotate
command for pihole.log
with the following options:
daily
(rotate the log once per day)copytruncate
(copy the existing file to the new place and truncate the original file afterwards)rotate 5
(keep 5 days/manual flush cycles)compress
+delaycompress
(compress files older than 1 day)notifyempty
(do not rotate the log if it is empty)nomail
(don’t mail old log files to any address)
If for some reason logrotate
is not found, it will fallback to the old flushing routine.
Multiple Upstream DNS Servers
You can now specify multiple upstream servers to use via the Web interface.
Pi-hole Teleporter
This feature was called takeout for a while, but teleporter seemed more appropriate and didn’t make us as hungry. This feature came as a request from the community so you can now export your Pi-hole lists to a .zip file.
Wildcards are a beautiful beautiful thing
Goofy question and I know I read before the YouTube ads are difficult. But I ran both of the bannerflow commands above and, at first, it was blocking excellently.. But after a bit, it no longer blocks.. Is there any way to determine if there may be another bannerflow that has kicked in? It's minor, but just wanted to ask..
Thanks..
Check the query log in the web interface.
This is a copy of the log when I searched YouTube.. Bear with me because I'm still learning about pihole and what can be done..
::: /etc/pihole/list.0.raw.githubusercontent.com.domains (7 results)
0.0.0.0 www.youtube-nocookie.com #[affects various videos]
0.0.0.0 static.2mdn.net #[affects Youtube]
0.0.0.0 s2.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 s.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 youtube.112.2o7.net
0.0.0.0 ads.youtube.com
0.0.0.0 ehg-youtube.hitbox.com
::: /etc/pihole/list.1.mirror1.malwaredomains.com.domains (2 results)
buatduityoutube.com
youtubeclone.us
::: /etc/pihole/list.2.sysctl.org.domains (0 results)
::: /etc/pihole/list.3.zeustracker.abuse.ch.domains (0 results)
::: /etc/pihole/list.4.s3.amazonaws.com.domains (0 results)
::: /etc/pihole/list.5.s3.amazonaws.com.domains (1 results)
ads.youtube.com
::: /etc/pihole/list.6.hosts-file.net.domains (2 results)
127.0.0.1 ssl-youtube.2cnt.net
127.0.0.1 youtube.2cnt.net
::: /etc/pihole/list.preEventHorizon (9 results)
ads.youtube.com
buatduityoutube.com
ehg-youtube.hitbox.com
s.youtube.com
s2.youtube.com
ssl-youtube.2cnt.net
youtube.112.2o7.net
youtube.2cnt.net
youtubeclone.us
::: /etc/pihole/blacklist.txt (0 results)
Can I wildcard entire TLDs? The .online TLD seems to me to be nothing but spam and misleading malware ads. Not sure how that would work.