DNS adlist: Is whitelisting possible?

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1

Hi,

is there a good way to remove or whitelist entries from the adlist?

2

There is currently no whitelist function. You can delete it manually from a .txt file

3

Good to know, thanks for your reply.

Is there any example script to do this on the router or do I need to make this externally?

4

It’s pretty simple, just fetch the file then add it as a file in adlist. in this following example it will be saved as pro.txt
This just means you will need to keep updating though, as from memory the url will try every hour for an update.

/tool/fetch url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/hosts/pro.txt" 
mode=https

That way you can just edit at your leisure.


Warning, make sure you have spare space as that file will use 73608 KiB of memory

5

Close. I want to whitelist before the import!

Here is my solution on Linux that I would to execute on the router.

ADLIST="/var/www/www/adlist"
curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts" -o "${ADLIST}.org"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
	grep -v "www.googleadservices.com" < "${ADLIST}.org" > "${ADLIST}.txt"
	chown www-data:www-data "${ADLIST}.org" "${ADLIST}.txt"
fi
6

Yeah normis said they was going to add more features but nothing seen as yet!
I’m thinking about using the DOH adlist option (as of 7.16_beta2) for queries but that means registering up on a dns provider doesn’t it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4erB0VzyIE

7

@normis Can I ask about the possibility of adding this feature to the stable version of 7.16? It’s too bad to disable the entire ad list because of one domain that the author added to it by mistake.

8

Currently whitelist is available on latest 7.17beta2. For now, I just add static DNS for specific domain.

For example, if I want to whitelist “googleadservices.com”:

  1. Disable specific list from adlist
  2. Open terminal > ping googleadservices.com
  3. Add the ip to static DNS
/ip/dns/static/add name=googleadservices.com match-subdomain=yes address=142.250.105.154
  1. Enable specific list from adlist
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And how to block everything except the whitelisted domanin?
I don’t want to manually add everything that is kind impossible, for my use case I just need to open specific domain.