About updateGravity problem

secooonder · October 27, 2019, 2:24pm

Hi,

When i run "pihole updateGravity", i took an error.
(a.b.c.d is my forward dns)
log;

 [i] Target: ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch (TL_C2_DOMBL.txt)
  [✗] Status: ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch is blocked by https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts. Using DNS on a.b.c.d to download https://ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch/downloads/TL_C2_DOMBL.txt
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

What is the purpose of smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts address?
Why is ransomwaretracker blocked by smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts ? What does this log mean ?
Should i remove ransomwaretracker address from adlist.txt ? Do you advice me ?
What can i do ? What is your suggestions ?

Thank you

jfb · October 27, 2019, 3:04pm

This is not an error. Pi-Hole is informing you that since the domain that serves your requested blocklist is blocked by one of your other blocklists, it is bypassing itself to load the blocklist.

In the past, if a blocklist contained the domains of one or more of your other blocklists, you would not be able to download the blocklist without whitelisting its domain. Since it is clear that you want to load a blocklist if you have it in your blocklist subscriptions, this new feature was added to Pi-Hole a few versions ago.

In your case, the subscribed blocklist https://smokingwheels.github.io/Pi-hole/allhosts is blocking gthe domain ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch.

Pi-Hole went directly to your upstream DNS server to load the blocklist, bypassing itself.

You would need to contact the list maintainer to determine why this domain is blocked.

You do not need to take any action. Pi-Hole resolves the conflict for you with no action required.

Here is the code if you are interested:

github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole

gravity.sh

master


      
          
            return 1 # Bash non-0 is failure
          }
          
          # Update number of domain on this list. We store this in the "old" database as all values in the new database will later be overwritten
          database_adlist_number() {
            # Only try to set number of domains when this field exists in the gravity database
            if ! gravity_column_exists "adlist" "number"; then
              return
            fi
          
            output=$({ printf ".timeout 30000\\nUPDATE adlist SET number = %i, invalid_domains = %i WHERE id = %i;\\n" "${2}" "${3}" "${1}" | pihole-FTL sqlite3 -ni "${gravityTEMPfile}"; } 2>&1)
            status="$?"
          
            if [[ "${status}" -ne 0 ]]; then
              echo -e "\\n  ${CROSS} Unable to update number of domains in adlist with ID ${1} in database ${gravityTEMPfile}\\n  ${output}"
              gravity_Cleanup "error"
            fi
          }
          
          # Update status of this list. We store this in the "old" database as all values in the new database will later be overwritten

system · November 17, 2019, 3:18pm

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