DEPRECATED

No longer maintained. I personally don’t use this any longer.

BIND ad blocker

Fetch various blocklists and generate a BIND zone from them.

Configure BIND to return NXDOMAIN for ad and tracking domains to stop clients from contacting them.

Requires BIND 9.8 or newer for RPZ support.

The sources can be configured with the blocklists.conf file

Setup

Copy the update-zonefile.py script to /usr/local/bin.
Copy the update-blacklist-zonefile.service and update-blacklist-zonefile.timer into /etc/systemd/system.

Afterwards execute
```shell script
systemctl enable update-blacklist-zonefile.service
systemctl enable update-blacklist-zonefile.timer

and
```shell script
systemctl start update-blacklist-zonefile.service

Required Python packages

• requests
• dnspython
• jinja2
• python-dateutil

These packages need to be installed to run the update script.

Usage

Useage of the ‘update-zonefile.py’ script

usage: update-zonefile.py [-h] [-v | -q] [--print-bind-config] [--reload-zone]
                      zonefile origin
positional arguments:
  zonefile             name of the generated file
  origin               name of the zone
optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose        increase verbosity (specify multiple times for more output)
  -q, --quiet          suppress output, except fatal messages
  --print-bind-config  print necessary configuration of BIND to use the generated file
  --reload-zone        trigger a reload of the zone after update

Example: update-zonefile.py /var/bind/rpz/blacklist.zone rpz.blacklist -q --reload-zone

update-zonefile.py will update the zone file with the fetched server lists and issue a rndc reload origin afterwards.