Blacklist not working

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https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/nqc2n13nhy!

Hello. New to PiHole and installed application. When I add a black listed URL, it doesn't seem to be saved by PiHole. Probably something incredibly simple, but unable to see the error. Thank you.

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Please provide more details - what is the domain being blacklisted, how did you add this domain to the blacklist, what are the results of a dig for this blacklisted domain and what is shown in /var/log/pihole.log after you dig for that domain?

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Thank you for responding. Below is the DIG and the CAT of the various logs.

Is it not possible to have nl4389.dediseedbox.com as a domain? I want to access dediseedbox.com, but not the nl4389.dediseedbox.com.

pi@raspberrypi : ~ $ dig nl4389.dediseedbox.com
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Raspbian <<>> nl4389.dediseedbox.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64156
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nl4389.dediseedbox.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nl4389.dediseedbox.com. 2 IN A 0.0.0.0
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 19 18:01:27 GMT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 67

var/log results:
Mar 19 18:00:55 dnsmasq[9074]: query[A] https://nl4389.dediseedbox.com/ from 127.0.0.1
Mar 19 18:00:55 dnsmasq[9074]: forwarded https://nl4389.dediseedbox.com/ to 149.112.112.112
Mar 19 18:00:55 dnsmasq[9074]: reply https://nl4389.dediseedbox.com/ is NXDOMAIN
Mar 19 18:01:27 dnsmasq[9074]: query[A] nl4389.dediseedbox.com from 127.0.0.1
Mar 19 18:01:27 dnsmasq[9074]: /etc/pihole/black.list nl4389.dediseedbox.com is 0.0.0.0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Mar 19 17:14 /etc/pihole/blacklist.txt
nl4389.dediseedbox.com

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It is possible, and you have blocked nl4389.dediseedbox.com, as shown in the return of NULL from Pi-Hole when you ran the dig command for this domain.

Run these two commands and post the output:

pihole -q -adlist nl4389.dediseedbox.com

sudo grep nl4389.dediseedbox.com /etc/pihole/gravity.list

If you run the following command to check the parent domain, you should find it not blocked:

dig +short dediseedbox.com

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Thank you. This was very helpful for a new user.

$ pihole -q -adlist nl4389.dediseedbox.com
Match found in Blacklist
nl4389.dediseedbox.com

pi@raspberrypi : ~ $ sudo grep nl4389.dediseedbox.com /etc/pihole/gravity.list

pi@raspberrypi : ~ $ dig +short dediseedbox.com
104.25.198.14
104.25.199.14

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This shows that the sub domain is blacklisted and is now in your gravity list (master list of blocked domains), and the higher level doman is not blocked. As you intended, it works properly.

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