Adguard Home DNS lists

[Bammede]

Is it compatible with Adguard Home's lists?

https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Hosts-Blocklists

[pommee]

GoAway will parse the following:

domain.com            # valid
0.0.0.0 domain.com    # valid
127.0.0.1 domain.com  # valid

# something...   # ignored

||example.org^       # invalid
@@||example.org^     # invalid
1.2.3.4 example.org  # valid

With that said, according to their docs, GoAway make use of the "old /etc/hosts-style syntax" and "Domains-only syntax". There is currently no support for Adblock-style syntax.

[Bammede]

Thanks.

Adblock Special characters and @@ marker are useful e.g.

@@ - this prefix good for whitelists

and those to match various domains:

    *: the wildcard character. It is used to represent any set of characters. This can also be an empty string or a string of any length.

    ||: matches the beginning of a hostname, including any subdomain. For instance, ||example.org matches example.org and test.example.org but not testexample.org.

    ^: the separator character. Unlike browser ad blocking, there's nothing to separate in a hostname, so the only purpose of this character is to mark the end of the hostname.

    |: a pointer to the beginning or the end of the hostname. The value depends on the character placement in the mask. For example, the rule ample.org| corresponds to example.org but not to example.org.com. |example corresponds to example.org but not to test.example.

[pommee]

Do you have knowledge if this is widely adopted? If that is the case, then it might be something to consider going forward.

[Bammede]

Adblock & Adguard DNS

this syntax helps to set domains in more flexible ways even for blocking cookies popups.

[Bammede]

just a reminder: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Hosts-Blocklists