I've heard from users on lockdown due to the pandemic who are struggling with slow internet. Seems to me this could help. Looking at the dnsmasq docs:
-H, --addn-hosts=<file> Additional hosts file. Read the specified file as well as
/etc/hosts. If -h is given, read only the specified file.
This option may be repeated for more than one additional
hosts file. If a directory is given, then read all the files
contained in that directory.
This option could be used to create an ad / tracker blocking option, effectively ignoring DNS requests for undesirable hosts.
If it sounds familiar, this is indeed very similar to Pi-Hole. However, combining this facility with an AP would simplify setup and improve throughput by filtering out cruft, at least in theory.
This project looked promising, so I quickly prototyped a new feature that uses it. There are of course many other such lists.
The update button pulls the latest lists down to the Pi. I haven't done extensive testing (ad blocking, performance or otherwise), but dnsmasq seems happy with it.
dnsmasq[20285]: read /etc/raspap/adblock/hostnames.txt - 78506 addresses
Anyone have experience with this?
I've heard from users on lockdown due to the pandemic who are struggling with slow internet. Seems to me this could help. Looking at the dnsmasq docs:
This option could be used to create an ad / tracker blocking option, effectively ignoring DNS requests for undesirable hosts.
If it sounds familiar, this is indeed very similar to Pi-Hole. However, combining this facility with an AP would simplify setup and improve throughput by filtering out cruft, at least in theory.
This project looked promising, so I quickly prototyped a new feature that uses it. There are of course many other such lists.
The update button pulls the latest lists down to the Pi. I haven't done extensive testing (ad blocking, performance or otherwise), but dnsmasq seems happy with it.
Anyone have experience with this?