My Own Lists?

General Customizing Pi-hole
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Hi, rather new to Linux & Pihole.

My question is this. I am in the midst of making my own list of URL'S with there respective IP's.
I.E. rr5---sn-tt1e7n7l.googlevideo.com 173.194.131.107

When I'm done I will save it in txt format.

When I'm done compiling my list, how can I upload my list to my pihole.

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First thought - blocking YouTube ads with these domains will prove fruitless, and may interfere with your desired content. Very long running thread here:

Second thought - in a hosts formatted file, the IP comes first, then the domain name. You have this backwards.

Pi-hole will import lists that are either in hosts format or simply a list of domains. If the list is in hosts format, Pi-hole will strip the leading IP's and keep only the domains.

All three of these line entries below can be parsed by Pi-hole, and only the domain name (www.jiztini.com) will remain:

0.0.0.0 www.jiztini.com

127.0.0.1 www.jiztini.com

www.jiztini.com

Are you intending to block this domain? Why do you have the actual IP listed along with the domain?

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thanks for the reply, I will change the order there in as you suggest.

Yes I'm trying to block youtube ads & potentially other unwanted google stuff & yes I understand it may be like Wack a mole.

Is it possible to upload my local list to my pihole, rather not post on Github or similar page just yet

And as Im still new to Linux & Pi-hole what is parsed plz,

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You can put your list in a local file and access it via:

file:///filepath/filename

Note the three strokes after the colon - not a typo.

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Again thanks for the info, I'll give it a go.

Further down the road I do plan on downloading all my lists & will eventually / hopefully create a HUGE Master list

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Or if you want your blocklist in the cloud, you can put it in your DropBox account, get the share link and plug that URL into your Pi-Hole to download from it.

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DO NOT put 0.0.0.0 in a pi-hole blocklist file. Tou may think it doesn't add much but it causes the size of the file to absolutely balllooooon

I thought I needed the 0 and I wget the files from github, and I got a nearly 6,000 KB file. I wondered if it works withiut that and saw there was an

'nl' file for each list. Without the added numbers, that list only takes about 750 kilobtyes, not six megs!

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Number of bytes with 0.0.0.0 IP's included in the default adlist that comes with Pi-hole:

pi@ph5b:~ $ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | wc -c
3458682

Without:

pi@ph5b:~ $ curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts | sed 's/^0.0.0.0 //' | wc -c
2577946

Thats a reduction of date of about 25%.
Not worth the effort.

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Enable gzip compression like we added a few releases ago and that drops considerably.

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Aha:

pi@ph5b:~ $ curl -sSLI https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
[..]
content-length: 3458682

Vs:

pi@ph5b:~ $ curl -sSLI --compressed https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
[..]
content-length: 845551
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Yep, repetitive content like 0.0.0.0 smush down really nicely. :wink:

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Thats what compression is for :+1:

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depends on how many entries, I have a bit over 101.000 blocked domains, with some of them stripped of... domaims I won't ever visit, not a large amount, like 20 or so.

Removing those 0 saved a staggering amount in one of the blocklists, I'll go link to it on github if you want?

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We don't want.

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Sure if you want to create your own list, you can decide to omit the IP addresses.
But it wont be a HOSTS format anymore that can be imported by other software (not only Pi-hole).
And we showed you already that omitting the IP's is hardly worth the effort.
Its your list so you decide.

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