
- #ABYSS WEB SERVER AD BLOCKING REDIRECTION 1X1 MANUAL#
- #ABYSS WEB SERVER AD BLOCKING REDIRECTION 1X1 ARCHIVE#
Unarchivers to use archive blocklists instead of plain text:
sudo to enable the user-friendly wrapper script (highly recommended). Optional dependencies for additional features bash or dash, chmod, cksum, cp, cut, file, find, grep, id, mkdir, mv, rm, sed, sort, tee, touch, tr, wc, and xargs. A POSIX environment (which should already be in place on most Linux, *BSD, and macOS environments, including the following commands: sh (e.g. Redirection capability - Enchances security by combating DNS cache poisoning.Įxtensive choice of blocklists included - Allowing the user to choose how much or how little is blocked/redirected. High performance blocking - Only when using dns caching. Resource-efficient - Only processes blocklists when changes are registered. Non-interactive - Can be run as a periodic background job without needing user interaction.Įxtensive configurability - Allows for custom deny & allow listing, redirection, post-processing scripting (now provided via systemd configuration), etc.īandwith-efficient - Only downloads blocklists that have been changed, using http compression when available. (Provided that unzip and p7zip are installed) System-wide blocking - All non-proxied connections use the HOSTS file (Proxied connections can be modified to use the HOSTS file)Ĭompression-friendly - Can download and process zip- and 7zip-compressed files automatically. New: Includes systemd service files that heavily sandbox the background process. FeaturesĮnhanced security - Runs as an unprivileged user instead of root. Hostsblock also provides a command-line utility that allows you to configure how individual websites and any other domains contained in that website are handled.
To do so, it downloads a configurable set of blocklists and processes their entries into a single HOSTS file. Hostsblock is a POSIX-compatible script designed to take advantage of the /etc/hosts file to provide system-wide blocking of internet advertisements, malicious domains, trackers, and other undesirable content.
#ABYSS WEB SERVER AD BLOCKING REDIRECTION 1X1 MANUAL#
Usage: Configuring sudo, Manual Usage, UrlCheck Usage ( examples).Configuration: Edit nf, Enable Timer, Enable Postprocessing.Installation: Dependencies, Arch Linux, Other POSIX.An ad- and malware-blocking utility for POSIX systems Contents