[Dnsmasq-discuss] Best practice for using Dnsmasq to block advertisements

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 10:32:57AM +0100, Neil Darlow via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Dnsmasq successfully to manage DNS and DHCP for my home
> services for a while now and I thank you for this excellent piece of
> software.
> 
> I'm now seeking to implement an Ad-blocking solution using Dnsmasq and
> have seen various methods available:
> 1) The address= format
> 2) The server= format
> 3) The conventional /etc/hosts format
> 
> In exploring these methods I find that (1) is quite inefficient, (2)
> seems to prevent Dnsmasq starting under Systemd with a large number of
> entries and (3) seems viable except for one issue.
> 
> The /etc/hosts format seems to complain about Punycode/IDN formatted
> hostnames to the extent that a large number of them floods the systemd
> journal. I get the impression that resolution does work for those
> entries though.
> 
> What are people's thoughts on using Dnsmasq in this role and can these
> "bad name" errors for internationalized hostnames in addn-hosts= be
> mitigated/eliminated somehow?

If I Understood Correct is the base of https://pi-hole.net/ dnsmasq.
 
> 
> For reference, I am using dnsmasq-2.86 on archlinuxARM and it is built
> with libidn2 support.
> 
> TIA,
> Neil Darlow

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Geert Stappers
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