Can't download ad-block lists

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Expected Behaviour:

When i install Pi-hole it should download all the lists chosen by default.

Debug Token:

I never got pihole -d working, i tried reinstalling over 10 times Pi-hole on my RPi3B+ (using also different OSs, such as DietPi or Raspbian, which is where i'm on now).

Actual Behaviour:

_It doesn't happen.

  [i] Pi-hole blocking is enabled
  [i] Neutrino emissions detected...
  [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

  [i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts)
  [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

  [i] Target: mirror1.malwaredomains.com (justdomains)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [i] Target: sysctl.org (hosts)
  [✓] Status: No changes detected

  [i] Target: zeustracker.abuse.ch (blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_tracking.txt)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_ad.txt)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [i] Target: hosts-file.net (ad_servers.txt)
  [✗] Status: Connection Refused
  [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

  [✓] Consolidating blocklists
  [✓] Extracting domains from blocklists
  [i] Number of domains being pulled in by gravity: 58801
  [✓] Removing duplicate domains
  [i] Number of unique domains trapped in the Event Horizon: 47082
  [i] Nothing to whitelist!
  [i] Number of regex filters: 0
  [✓] Parsing domains into hosts format
  [✓] Cleaning up stray matter

  [✓] Force-reloading DNS service
  [✓] DNS service is running
  [✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled```_
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What is the contents of your /etc/pihole/adlists.list file?

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The /etc/pihole/adlists.list must not contain any blank lines, as far as I know.

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pi@PiHole:/etc/pihole $ cat adlists.list 
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains
http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts
https://zeustracker.abuse.ch/blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt
https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
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Yeah, there is a condition that is along those lines that causes download issues.

I think also if there is a # followed by a space then a domain. (There is an issue on Github somewhere but I cannot find it!)

That all said. @Tommaso_Chiti's adlists.list file looks fine.

What issue do you get when trying to run pihole -d?

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Any it doesn't seem to be my case. That's very weird though :expressionless:

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Wait a minute sir. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, I'll look at that. In the mean time.. this is going to sound like a silly question. Is the Date and Time correct on your Pi?

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Actually. It's not correct at all from the snippet you just sent over:

*** [ INITIALIZING ]
[i] 2018-11-14:08:23:26 debug log has been initialized.
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That's another point: i never got it working fine. It's still in 2018. I also thought it could be that generating the issue. NTPD, NTP, Systemdatctl have never worked.

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Yep, that's exactly why you're seeing issues.

Certificate checks can fail if the system time is incorrect... certs are generally valid for a certain period and if your system time is outside of that period then the check will fail!

I thought there was an option in raspi-config to configure the timezone/NTP settings, but I could be wrong.. don't have a Pi with me right now!

Maybe some useful info here: raspbian - How to force NTPD to update date/time after boot? - Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange

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Perfect. Now Debug Logging also works. Thank u so much :smiley:

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