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Fast and lightweight DNS proxy (like Pi-hole) as ad-blocker for local network with many features.

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Blocky

Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go with following features:

Features

  • Blocking - Blocking of DNS queries with external lists (Ad-block, malware) and whitelisting

  • Definition of black and white lists per client group (Kids, Smart home devices, etc.)

  • Periodical reload of external black and white lists
  • Regex support
  • Blocking of request domain, response CNAME (deep CNAME inspection) and response IP addresses (against IP lists)

  • Advanced DNS configuration - not just an ad-blocker

  • Custom DNS resolution for certain domain names

  • Conditional forwarding to external DNS server
  • Upstream resolvers can be defined per client group

  • Performance - Improves speed and performance in your network

  • Customizable caching of DNS answers for queries -> improves DNS resolution speed and reduces amount of external DNS queries

  • Prefetching and caching of often used queries
  • Using multiple external resolver simultaneously
  • Low memory footprint

  • Various Protocols - Supports modern DNS protocols

  • DNS over UDP and TCP

  • DNS over HTTPS (aka DoH)
  • DNS over TLS (aka DoT)

  • Security and Privacy - Secure communication

  • Supports modern DNS extensions: DNSSEC, eDNS, ...

  • Free configurable blocking lists - no hidden filtering etc.
  • Provides DoH Endpoint
  • Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider
  • Blocky does NOT collect any user data, telemetry, statistics etc.

  • Integration - various integration

  • Prometheus metrics

  • Prepared Grafana dashboards (Prometheus and database)
  • Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL database - easy to analyze
  • Various REST API endpoints
  • CLI tool

  • Simple configuration - single or multiple configuration files in YAML format

  • Simple to maintain

  • Simple to backup

  • Simple installation/configuration - blocky was designed for simple installation

  • Stateless (no database, no temporary files)

  • Docker image with Multi-arch support
  • Single binary
  • Supports x86-64 and ARM architectures -> runs fine on Raspberry PI
  • Community supported Helm chart for k8s deployment

Quick start

You can jump to Installation chapter in the documentation.

Full documentation

You can find full documentation and configuration examples at: https://0xERR0R.github.io/blocky/

Contribution

Issues, feature suggestions and pull requests are welcome!

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