Hi,
just a quick question - what does it mean (when updating lists):
::: Getting adaway.org list... done
::: Status: Forbidden
::: Download failed and no cached list available (list will not be considered)
I added the adaway.org list, since I was using it on my router previously. Not sure why I get this information?
I like the PiHole, but need to customize the lists, as this is exactly what makes it less or more effective, so I need to be able to add my own lists.
That means a 403 error code. How did you add the adaway list to your Pi-hole?
403, now I get it 
I used adlists.list:
[code]
$cat adlists.list
cp /etc/pihole/adlists.default /etc/pihole/adlists.listnano /etc/pihole/adlists.list################################################################################
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts for detailshttps://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
http://pilotfiber.dl.sourceforge.net/project/adzhosts/HOSTS.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/win10/spy.txt
#http://securemecca.com/Downloads/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quidsup/notrack/master/trackers.txt
#https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BreakingTheNews/BreakingTheNews.github.io/master/hosts
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/master/anti-adblock-killer-filters.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dawsey21/Lists/master/main-blacklist.txt
http://malwaredomains.lehigh.edu/files/domains.txt
https://raw.github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/master/hostnames.txt
https://raw.github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists/master/domains.txt
#https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mat1th/Dns-add-block/master/hosts
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt [/code]
Let me bump this - still needs help
Sorry for the delay, what is the output of curl -I https://adaway.org/hosts.txt?
Hey there,
thanks, have a look:
root@DNSbuntu:~# curl -I https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:52:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=**[removed by me]**
; expires=Sat, 31-Mar-18 18:52:23 GMT; path=/; domain=.adaway.org; HttpOnly
Last-Modified: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:20:59 GMT
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Expires: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 19:02:23 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=600
X-GitHub-Request-Id: **[removed by me]**
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: **[removed by me]**
(I removed the ID's)
BTW I can simply download it using curl.
curl -s -L -w %{http_code} -A "Mozilla/10.0" https://adaway.org/hosts.txt -o test.txt
This is similar to the command that gravity runs when it downloads the lists. Running it with the -A "Mozilla/10.0" option (which it uses by default), the server denies the request (see the. However, with an empty browser signature (-A ""), it still denies the request, but returns code 200 (good). We already have a few lists programmed to use different signatures, so this should be fixed in a future update, once we figure out what settings we need.
I thought this might be something about the User Agent. I would be happy to see that fixed. It could be done that PiHole tries few agents before it gives up