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# Blocky
Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go with following features:
## Features
- **Blocking** - Blocking of DNS queries with external lists (Ad-block, malware) and whitelisting
* Definition of black and white lists per client group (Kids, Smart home devices, etc.)
* Periodical reload of external black and white lists
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* 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](https://prometheus.io/) metrics
* Prepared [Grafana](https://grafana.com/) dashboards (Prometheus and database)
* Logging of DNS queries per day / per client in CSV format or MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL database - easy to analyze
* Various REST API endpoints
* CLI tool
- **Simple configuration** - single configuration file in YAML format
* Simple to maintain
* Simple to backup
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- **Simple installation/configuration** - blocky was designed for simple installation
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* 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
## Quick start
You can jump to [Installation](https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/installation/) chapter in the documentation.
## Full documentation
You can find full documentation and configuration examples
at: [https://0xERR0R.github.io/blocky/](https://0xERR0R.github.io/blocky/)
## Contribution
Issues, feature suggestions and pull requests are welcome!
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