Feature request: Support asterisks in DNS host blocklists

[mtxadmin]

Hello.

Is there any plans to support asterisk(s) in blocklists?

It could drastically reduce RAM footprint and battery consumption. Some time ago in julian-klode/dns66#423, I wrote an example for doubleclick.net subdomains. But now it is possible to fully estimate the difference for all marketing and other subdomains

Two blocklists (compiled from the strictly same sources): first is traditional one
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtxadmin/ublock/master/hosts.txt - 29.7 MB
And the second is using asterisks (for using in Blokada)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtxadmin/ublock/master/hosts_blokada.txt - 2.94 MB

In addition, using of asterisks can block all the new subdomains automatically.

[ignoramous]

Hi there 👋

The blocklists wildcard support for RethinkDNS is tracked here: serverless-dns/blocklists#9

But: do you mean wildcard support in

• custom wildcard entries Implement "block domain" action in the DNS logs view #18
• custom blocklist import On-device blocklists import #293

Then, yes, we intend to support it.

Btw, wildcard or not, it doesn't matter in terms of perf for RethinkDNS. Of course reduction in size is important but that's secondary concern as RethinkDNS already compresses the included blocklists six ways from Sunday.

[ignoramous]

Closing as dup of serverless-dns/blocklists#9

Re-open if you think that was a mistake. Thanks.