After upgrading my pi-hole from version 4.0 to version 5.0 I went ahead and deleted all the adlists in order to run pihole -g to update the database. What I didn't realize at the time, was that pi-hole still has to rely on a list of adlists to populate the database. After searching for a couple of …

[image] hot2use: if the original documentation could encompass this information, then I guess this would benefit the whole pi-hole community I don't think the documentation is the correct place for that. The documentation explains program operation and options. We have the FAQ section for j…

[image] Restoring default Pi-hole adlist(s) Community How-to's Pi-hole ships with optional adlist(s) (publicly maintained block lists), which you can enable if you choose. If you find that you need to restore the default list(s), they are as follows - current …

Thank you for the links. I added the following text to the first original topic: Could we add some tags to this post and pin it? While the title states blocklists, the actual configuration is for adlists. The word blacklist also pops to mind when thinking about finding the correct information. A…

Documentation will likely become out of date as Adlists are altered. I would suggest the better solution is to fix pihole -r when the list of Adlists is empty. I raised a bug report for this issue: Pi-hole fails to restore default list of adlists · Issue #3402 · pi-hole/pi-hole · GitHub

Reseting Pi-hole Default Blacklist

General Customizing Pi-hole

yubiuser May 23, 2020, 8:07am 2