README.md

dnscrypt-blocking-additions

Blacklists

File name	Description
activation.txt	License validation hosts for various software
ads.txt	Ad hosts used in various software
anticheat.txt	Hosts related to various video game anti-cheat software
fakenews.txt	Sites that deliberately spread hoaxes and disinformation
misc.txt	Other hosts that don't fit into either of the above files
tracking.txt	Tracking and telemetry hosts used in various software

Whitelists

File name	Description
amazon.txt	Amazon domains
cdn.txt	Popular Content Distribution Network (CDN) domains
crl.txt	Certificate Revocation List domains
github.txt	GitHub domains
microsoft.txt	Microsoft domains (MSDN, TechNet, Visual Studio)
misc.txt	Other domains that have been blocked at some point which I've had to manually whitelist
ocsp.txt	Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) domains
social.txt	Social media sites (Twitter, Discord)
video.txt	Video hosting sites (Dumpert, Twitch)

Files in the script folder

Files that are sourced from the dnscrypt repository's own contrib folder are denoted with an asterisk(*), and have a separate license than the rest of this repository. See contrib\COPYING.dnscrypt.

File name	Description
blacklist.conf*	List of various hosts files from around the web, and the ones in this repository
whitelist.conf	List of various hosts files to exclude from the blacklist
make_blacklist.py*	Modified version of the generate-domains-blacklist.py script from dnscrypt

How to use make_blacklist.py

$ py -2 .\make_blacklist.py

The final blacklist result is written to blacklist.txt, and the exclusions are written to whitelist.tmp (only needed for debugging).

Parameter	Default value	Description
-c or --config	domains-blacklist.conf	file containing domain list sources
-w or --whitelist	domains-whitelist.conf	file containing a set of names to exclude from the blacklist
-r or --time-restricted	time-restricted.txt	file containing a set of names to be time restricted
-i or --ignore-retrieval-failure	-	generate list even if some urls couldn't be retrieved
-t or --timeout	30	URL open timeout
-o or --output	blacklist.txt	file output