Great concept!!
Much thanks and have been using it with no issues.
When I first started out on my hex, on my own, I found some available firehol lists… and started reading about spamhouse, dshield, malcode. country lists and other lists.
They would all pump out files to use.
Then I came accross Josh Haven…
http://joshaven.com/resources/tricks/mikrotik-automatically-updated-address-list/
Wow, a resource that looked at some major lists (not countries though) and provided them in almost a ready to use format.
There are lots of efforts and scripts out there, so dont bash the author and try the alternatives as they may work for you.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/spamhaus-dshield-malc0de-openbl-malicious-ip-blacklists/94634/1 (dated 2016)
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/blacklist-filter-development-topic/121264/1 (Dave is working on this one, based on an older effort and may hold some promise but does speak to the challenges of setting this up properly and it takes time and money).
In summary, if someone one wants to provide a stable, server based, blacklist for free that is tailored to ones equipment and seems to grab the best of whats available out there, then I and many others would be very grateful. (Normis, seems almost ready to volunteer, seeing as it so easy… )
In the meantime I will continue to use the service here that is so low cost - less than what I pay for coffee at Tim Hortons in a month. Since its not tied to a service offering that could disappear at any time (josh) and one that is more complete, and is supported by someone who is looking after many clients (responsible individual) and is not in the business of increasing their security risk (plus being Canadian lol). I am not worried about such issues. I am more concerned about a gazillion other sites to which I use for transactions and mikrotik for their next security blunder LOL.
I am also investigating another avenue, which purports to access ‘closed’ lists and does layer 7 programming and targets TOR nodes.
You get what you pay for though as it is also not free. Seems very good so far.
https://axiomcyber.com/shield/