Please follow the below template, it will help us to help you!
Expected Behaviour:
Clean pihole install but the http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts blocklist fails to load
Actual Behaviour:
Default blocklists should all load?
This is expected, but in this case, the server at the other end is not responding and thus Pi-Hole cannot download that list.
If you click on the link you posted, you will see the page will not load. That confirms that the problem is at the server end, and there is not a Pi-Hole problem.
What Pi-Hole does in this case is to use the local copy of the list that was previously downloaded. You get the domains that were in the last when last downloaded, which typically aren't much different than the current version.
Looks like something wrong with that host:
pi@noads:~ $ host sysctl.org
sysctl.org has address 213.186.34.12
pi@noads:~ $ ping 213.186.34.12
PING 213.186.34.12 (213.186.34.12) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 213.186.34.12 ping statistics ---
57 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 58231ms
pi@noads:~ $ curl -Iv http://sysctl.org/
* Trying 213.186.34.12...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* connect to 213.186.34.12 port 80 failed: Connection timed out
* Failed to connect to sysctl.org port 80: Connection timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to sysctl.org port 80: Connection timed out
Oc @jfb beat me to it again 
EDIT: typo in curl
1 Like
Hi @deHakkelaar and @jfb thanks for your prompt replies.
So solution could be that I upload that list to another webspace and use it from there?
Well not so easy to download it currently when it's not responding 
-Toube
1 Like
One solution I can think of is go to the pub or grocery store and check again when back 
1 Like
good idea too
I would say the solution is to let Pi-Hole try to update and eventually use the cached list. There is perhaps a 1-2 minute delay in gravity update while Pi-Hole waits for the server to respond. This is why the cron for gravity update runs on Sunday morning between 3 am and 5 am your local time. No expected impact to the user, who is likely sleeping.
In the short term, you can disable this list in your Pi-Hole install and you won't see the delay while Pi-Hole tries to load it.
The http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts - Blocklist still seems to be down (was here down for about 1 week now). I'd suggest to wait 2-3 weeks and then either remove this entry or replace it with a mirror or something like this.
1 Like
I noticed my gravity update could not get responses from sysctl.org mid morning. That site still does not respond to browser queries.
I everyone else seeing the same issue?
Harry
Yep, seems the site might offline for a longer time.
Up again:
pi@noads:~ $ curl -s http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts | wc -l
20569
This topic was automatically closed 21 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.