unbound-block-hosts - a script to convert Dan Pollock's ad blocking hosts file into Unbound local-data

unbound-block-hosts [OPTIONS]

Dan Pollock (http://someonewhocares.org/) maintains a hosts file that can be used by individual users to block hosts that contain advertisements, spyware, web trackers and other unpleasant, annoying or malicious content.

This script converts this file into a format that can be loaded into the Unbound DNS server, allowing this list to be consumed by an entire network, or by devices (such as smart phones and tablets) which don't support a local hosts file.

unbound-block-hosts supports the following arguments:

• --address=ADDRESS

  The IP address to resolve to. This is 127.0.0.1 by default.

• --v6address=ADDRESS

  The IPv6 address to resolve to. This is ::1 by default.

• --url=URL

  The URL to retrieve. This is http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts by default.

• --file=FILE

  The file to write. This is /var/unbound/local-blocking-data.conf by default.

• --SECTION

  The source file contains a number of sections, which can be enabled or disabled as required. By default, all sections are enabled except for shock-sites and maybe-spy.

This script will compare the modification time of the local file to that on the remote server, and won't request the file if it hasn't been updated.

To use the output of this file with Unbound, use the include directive within the server block, like so:

    server:
            access-control: 0.0.0.0/8 allow
            include: /var/unbound/local-blocking-data.conf

Copyright 2015 Gavin Brown <[email protected]>

This program is Free Software, you can use it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

• https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts
• http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/