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Blocky

Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go with following features:

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • FreeBSD
  • Docker
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  DNS Server
  3.  Dns
  4.  DNS over HTTPS
  5.  Golang
  6.  Parental Control

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  •  50 Open Issues
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What is Blocky?

Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go with following features:

Blocking - Blocking of DNS queries with external lists (Ad-block, malware) and allowlisting

  • Definition of allow/denylists per client group (Kids, Smart home devices, etc.)
  • Periodical reload of external allow/denylists
  • Regex support
  • Blocking of request domain, response CNAME (deep CNAME inspection) and response IP addresses (against IP lists)

Advanced DNS configuration - not just an ad-blocker

  • Custom DNS resolution for certain domain names
  • Conditional forwarding to external DNS server
  • Upstream resolvers can be defined per client group Performance - Improves speed and performance in your network
  • Customizable caching of DNS answers for queries -> improves DNS resolution speed and reduces amount of external
  • DNS queries
  • Prefetching and caching of often used queries
  • Using multiple external resolver simultaneously
  • Low memory footprint

Various Protocols - Supports modern DNS protocols

  • DNS over UDP and TCP
  • DNS over HTTPS (aka DoH)
  • DNS over TLS (aka DoT)

Security and Privacy - Secure communication

  • Supports modern DNS extensions: DNSSEC, eDNS, ...
  • Free configurable blocking lists - no hidden filtering etc.
  • Provides DoH Endpoint
  • Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider
  • Blocky does NOT collect any user data, telemetry, statistics etc.

Integration - various integration

  • Prometheus metrics
  • Prepared Grafana dashboards (Prometheus and database)
  • Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/Timescale database - easy to analyze
  • Various REST API endpoints
  • CLI tool

Simple configuration - single or multiple configuration files in YAML format

  • Simple to maintain
  • Simple to backup

Simple installation/configuration - blocky was designed for simple installation

  • Stateless (no database, no temporary files)
  • Docker image with Multi-arch support
  • Single binary
  • Supports x86-64 and ARM architectures -> runs fine on Raspberry PI
  • Community supported Helm chart for k8s deployment