Building a blocklist in Github or other

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I am relatively new to all this, but have been running my pi-hole for about 6 months now and have been happy with the results so far.

I am looking to block more domains from my network. Specifically online gaming sites like addictinggames.com and stickgames.com.

I have added these to a github and then loaded that into my pihiole using the GUI but the sites are not blocked. I believe I have a format or reference issue that prevents these from being added to the pihole.

Here is the github link for reference

Thanks for the help.

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Use the "Raw" link (is button on GitHub):

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I used the raw link and was still able to access the sites I had blocked.

Side not but may be related, when updating my lists it takes quite a long time.

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Did you check pihole -q <DOMAIN> ?

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addictinggames.com
silvergames.com/en
oakdalegames.weebly.com
sites.google.com/site/bestunblockedgames66/home
sites.google.com/site/bestunblockedgames66
stickgames.com

You cant uses slashes etc, only domain names like sites.google.com

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addictinggames.com was my trial and never was able to get it to block, so didnt move down the list to try other sites.

would the slashes kick the whole list?

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Yes only domains! (EDIT: not sure if kicks the whole list)
After you fixed the github list and reimported the raw link into Pi-hole:

pihole -q addictinggames.com

nslookup addictinggames.com

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See the results below, I am still able to access the site.

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -q addictinggames.com
Match found in list.16.raw.githubusercontent.com.domains:
addictinggames.com
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ nslookup addictinggames.com
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

Name: addictinggames.com
Address: 0.0.0.0
Name: addictinggames.com
Address: ::

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What is the specific URL you are loading? Please tail the pihole log with pihole -t while you load that site on your browser and post the output here.

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See results below.

23:19:24 dnsmasq[1181]: query[AAAA] www.addictinggames.com from 192.168.1.1
23:19:24 dnsmasq[1181]: /etc/pihole/gravity.list www.addictinggames.com is 0.0.0.0

Also how do I stop the -t command?

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Ctrl - C stops the tail command.

If you can access the site and it is blocked by Pi-Hole, then either the browser has it in cache still, or there is another DNS server available to the browser or there is another URL it is loading.

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It seems to be blocking the functionality of the games now but does not display "site can't be reached" like I expected.

I have tinkered enough tonight, back at it tomorrow.

Thanks for everyones help.

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Pi-Hole will only display a block page if you configure it do so, and then only if the page is an http page (won't work on https due to required certs for SSL).

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