Advanced filtering for wild card blocking

Feature Requests Implemented
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So I see mention that wild card support is coming? Am I correct in this?

Where I would like to see wild card support in the top domain list.. I have a iot device that queries ps-???.pubnub.com quite often. Where the ??? will be some new number.. So while I can add ps-673.pubnub.com, to the exclude list in the settings. Tomorrow it might be ps-834.pubnub.com, and now there it is on the top of domain list. I know this device queries this a lot.. I don't really care to have it take up spot on this list, I would like to see whatelse other domains are seeing the most queries..

I should be able to put in say *.pubnub.com and anything.something.whatever.pubnub.com should not be listed on the top domain lists. Thanks.. I would of put this in the feature request section, but there is another thread were wildcards have already been asked for. I was just wondering if this is on that same road map..

Or if there is some other way to accomplish it currently other than via the gui?

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You are right, we have a working implementation of wildcard blocking finished but it is on hold for going into the main code since it requires testing.

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/pull/1065

https://github.com/pi-hole/AdminLTE/pull/312

Your feature request goes into the direction of customizing the advanced filtering capabilities of the API, like

  • example.com (only prevent exact matches from coming up)
  • *example.com (also suppress things like abc.def.example.com)

This is planed but not yet done.

3

It is now implemented in the new FTL backend for all three tables.

4

Thanks.. Any sort of eta on when that might be available?

5

Does it helps with blocking YouTube ads? Since domain names often changes.

6

It should help. See this for more detail.

7

Cool! Looking forward to it :slight_smile:

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9

Has this feature been added ? I'm not able to enter wildcards into the exclude list in ftl for either top clients or top top domains. eg *.example.com.

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Yes, we've had wildcarding for a while now.