Firebog Lists Failing to Update: "Connection Refused"

Hi, have an issue with updating Firebog lists (others work fine).

## Expected Behaviour:

I expect that when I run the gravity update, all adlists—including those hosted by Firebog (e.g., https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt and https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt)—should be successfully retrieved and parsed.

  • Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
  • Hardware: Raspberry Pi
  • Pi-hole Version: v5.18.4
  • DNS Setup: Using unbound with local DNS as configured in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf
  • Networking: Utilizing Tailscale for network connectivity

## Actual Behaviour:

When updating gravity, all adlists update correctly except for the Firebog lists. The logs show a "Connection Refused" error for the Firebog URLs. For example:

[i] Target: https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt
[✗] Status: Connection Refused
[✗] List download failed: no cached list available

Tested with UFW disabled, but the issue persists.

Debug Token:

User info dashboard

I just checked and the lists are available here.

Maybe it was a temporary issue with the domain. Try again.

Also, try to access the URLs from your browser to check if another machine in your network can download the lists. If you can download from a browser, but not from your Pi-hole machine, it is a local network issue.

same at me

Thanks for the answer, but still not able to update them via pi-hole, curl request from raspi is also unsuccessful:

curl -O https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:01:18 --:--:--     0

But I'm able to open it from my Windows machine.

FWIW, I just ran the same curl command on my RPi running Ubuntu Server, and was successful under Pi-hole v5.18.1. Also succeeded with the other Firebog list you mentioned, so this does not appear to be something Pi-hole is doing. Perhaps you have another list that is now blocking firebog.net?

Run from your Pi-hole machine, what's the output of:

curl -ssLIv  https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt
pihole -q firebog.net

Hey,
I just rebooted the router and everything works fine again. All adlists are working fine. Thanks for your assistance :slight_smile:

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