[SOLVED] Why is my custom blocklist not working?

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I created a blocklist to block gaming sites. A snippet of this blocklist is

# surviv.io
0.0.0.0 surviv.io
0.0.0.0 na-nyc-p1.surviv.io
0.0.0.0 na-sfo-p1.surviv.io
0.0.0.0 na-chi-p1.surviv.io

But for some reason, it is not working and I assume that the format of my blocklist is incorrect, For example, if I ping surviv.io, I see in /var/log/pihole.log:

Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: query[A] surviv.io from 192.168.1.11
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: forwarded surviv.io to 208.67.222.222
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: query[AAAA] surviv.io from 192.168.1.11
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: forwarded surviv.io to 208.67.222.222
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: reply surviv.io is 104.17.61.91
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: reply surviv.io is 104.16.118.94
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: reply surviv.io is 2606:4700::6810:765e
Jan 30 08:24:44 dnsmasq[3866]: reply surviv.io is 2606:4700::6811:3d5b

On the other hand, if I ping quantummetric.com which is on https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/w3kbl.txt, I get:

Jan 30 08:29:55 dnsmasq[3866]: query[A] quantummetric.com from 192.168.1.11
Jan 30 08:29:55 dnsmasq[3866]: gravity blocked quantummetric.com is 0.0.0.0
Jan 30 08:29:55 dnsmasq[3866]: query[AAAA] quantummetric.com from 192.168.1.11
Jan 30 08:29:55 dnsmasq[3866]: gravity blocked quantummetric.com is ::

I am running this in an i386 based Debian box.

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How are you loading your custom blocklist into Pi-hole?

Please generate a debug log, upload it when prompted and post the token here.

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It is hosted on github.

This is the token: https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/d27vogb0dd

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You have this blocklist assigned to group 1 (gaming), but there are no clients assigned to that group. As a result, the blocklist is not applied to any clients.

* [ DIAGNOSING ]: Groups
   id    enabled  name                                                date_added           date_modified        description                                       
   ----  -------  --------------------------------------------------  -------------------  -------------------  --------------------------------------------------
   0           1  Default                                             2021-01-06 12:01:08  2021-01-06 12:01:08  The default group                                 
   1           1  Gaming                                              2021-01-28 10:43:31  2021-01-28 20:33:13                                                    
                                                    

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Clients

*** [ DIAGNOSING ]: Adlists
   id    enabled  group_ids     address                                                                                               date_added           date_modified        comment                                           
   ----  -------  ------------  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------  -------------------  --------------------------------------------------
   1        0     0             https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts                                      2021-01-06 12:01:08  2021-01-27 10:44:52  Migrated from /etc/pihole/adlists.list            
   ...                     
   7           1  1             https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoof/Gaming-blocklist/main/hosts                                    2021-01-28 09:33:39  2021-01-28 10:43:51  Gaming
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Ah, that makes sense! Thank you!

Related to this, do I need the 0.0.0.0 before each host in my list? I see this in StevenBlack's lists but not on others.

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It's optional. Many public blocklists are used as native hosts files, and this requires an IP mapping. The NULL IP leads to nowhere and is commonly used here to block domains.

Pi-hole strips out any leading IP's and just keeps the domains. So, if you are using your list for Pi-hole only, you can omit the leading IP's, but this is not required. Pi-hole will remove them.

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Thank you!

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So there's something that is still not working. I have pd.na.a.pvp.net and pd.na.a.pvp.net.cdn.cloudflare.net in my blocklist and it seems to still be forwarding these requests.

Jan 31 10:22:47 dnsmasq[3866]: query[AAAA] pd.na.a.pvp.net from 192.168.1.66
Jan 31 10:22:47 dnsmasq[3866]: forwarded pd.na.a.pvp.net to 208.67.222.222
Jan 31 10:22:47 dnsmasq[3866]: reply pd.na.a.pvp.net is <CNAME>
Jan 31 10:22:47 dnsmasq[3866]: reply pd.na.a.pvp.net.cdn.cloudflare.net is NODATA-IPv6

Any ideas what the problem might be? The new debug link is https://tricorder.pi-hole.net/30vqnchgyn.

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