pedz
June 29, 2020, 1:16pm
1
I got these messages but the final output said "Update Complete" in green:
[i] Target: https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
[✗] Status: Not found
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available
Is that ok?
This is on a Raspberry Pi (it might be version 2?) and with the normal Ubuntu-Mate distribution and is reasonably up to date.
jfb
June 29, 2020, 1:17pm
2
That list is no longer maintained and has been dropped from the Pi-hole defaults offered at startup. Delete this list from your adlists. The current defaults are shown here:
Pi-hole ships with optional adlist(s) (publicly maintained block lists), which you can enable if you choose. If you find that you need to restore the default list(s), they are as follows - current as of the V5.2 release and a pending change to remove a discontinued list.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
To restore these lists to your Pi-hole, you have several options:
Pi-hole V4:
From the web Admin GUI > Settings > Blocklists you can paste any of the URL's …
pedz
June 29, 2020, 1:28pm
3
Thank you. I went to the list via the GUI and deleted the hosts-file.net entry but I also have a fifth entry:
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
The tool tip says it was added today so I'm wondering if the web page you directed me too needs to be updated?
pedz
June 29, 2020, 1:40pm
4
Ok. I think I figured it out. The tool tip in the GUI says today because all of them were added today when I did the upgrade. And the path appears to have been used in v4 but I guess is no longer part of the defaults in v5.
Any reason to disable it or remove it?