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 Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
