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DualServer
Blacklists & Extras
Below are blacklists and other helpful links and tools for DualServer,
the highly configurable and scalable Windows/Linux DNS/DHCP
server. If the latest official Windows releases are not working for you, please try the unofficial ScriptTiger fork
of an earlier version. The unoffificial ScriptTiger fork releases
provide portable archives without the need to install as well as come
in both Win32 and Win64 varieties. A shout-out to the Brians, Prodoehl
and Lutz, over in the Connectify crew for developing that fork over the
years!
The blacklists are reformatted versions of Steven Black's
unified hosts
files and are synced regularly.
Combining Steven Black's Unified Hosts with DualServer allows anyone
from small home networks hosting DualServer on a regular old PC to a
larger corporate infrastructure with multiple server blades and relay
agents to block everything from sidebar ads, annoying YouTube video
ads, banner ads, coin miners, and even some invisible embedded
analytics trying to
gather more information about you for all connected devices using your
DualServer DNS service, including laptops, mobile phones, PCs, Macs,
Linux, whatever. The other files add onto the core Unified Hosts
additional blocks.
If you'd like a way to more quickly and easily update your DualServer's
blacklist to the most recent versions of Steven Black's unified hosts
files, try the ScriptTiger
unified hosts updater.
While the blacklists will work for anyone running DualServer, the
Updater is only for Windows users. If you download the above ZIP file
and extract the contents to your DualServer root, the same directory as
your DualServer.ini, it can update your DualServer for you depending on
your preferences without requiring you to manually download and
configure anything. Just insert #### BEGIN UNIFIED HOSTS #### and ####
END UNIFIED HOSTS #### into the [DNS_HOSTS] section of the
DualerServer.ini and run Blacklist_Update.cmd. After you have inserted
the beginning and ending tags, if you run the script again it will
automatically replace everything between them with the new blacklist.
If
you plan to always use the same blacklist, you can edit the "URL"
variable at the top of the script with the direct URL of the blacklist
you prefer and this will bypass having to be prompted for your
preferences later.
Note: A blacklist should be used together with other security measures
to be more effective. For instance, a network user could simply change
their device's currently configured DNS to get around blacklisting.
It's also common for Android devices to automatically use Google DNS as
a fallback if they cannot resovle quieries from the DNS servers
currently configured on the device either manually or via DHCP. One
simple way to make your network slightly more secure would be since
your local DNS is on your LAN side, you could therefore configure your
network equipment to block requests made by any LAN device other than
your server to any server on port 53 on the WAN side to ensure DNS
requests can only be made to your local server.
To use these blacklists with DualServer you can either copy and paste
their contents under the [DNS_HOSTS] section of the DualServer.ini or
simply direct DualServer to the downloaded blacklist file using
@blacklist.txt (or whatever the blacklist file name is) directly under
the [DNS_HOSTS] section of the DualServer.ini. Please note, however, if
you decide to direct DualServer to a file, the "@" line should be the
first line in the [DNS_HOSTS] section of the DualServer.ini and all
entries for the section must then come from the directed file.
| Hosts
File Type |
Download
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| Unified
hosts
= (adware + malware) |
Raw
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| Unified
hosts + fakenews |
Raw
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| Unified
hosts + gambling |
Raw
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| Unified
hosts + porn |
Raw
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| Unified
hosts + social |
Raw
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| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
gambling |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
porn |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
gambling +
porn |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
gambling +
social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
porn
+
social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
gambling + porn |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
gambling + social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
porn + social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
gambling +
porn + social |
Raw |
| Unified
hosts +
fakenews +
gambling + porn + social |
Raw |
Other helpful Links:
Default
URL
for your local
DualServer
Official
reference of DHCP options
Official
DualServer manual PDF
Official
DualServer configuration INI template
Basic DNS-Only DualServer Configuration
Bare
DualServer configuration INI with only section headers
Have questions or comments about the content on this page? ScriptTiger
would love to hear them! Open a new issue in ScriptTiger's
GitHub DualServer repository to have your voice heard! |
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