Bad lists?

[kyle95wm]

Adding ticked lists and get errors when downloading the following lists

• https://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt
• https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts;showintro=0
• https://hosts-file.net/exp.txt
• https://hosts-file.net/emd.txt
• https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt

All lists above (I'm sure there are a few others) error out, such as:

[i] Target: bitbucket.org (Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt) [✗] Status: Connection Refused [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

[kyle95wm]

Ran gravity again and some lists don't error out this time. Will update if I have any problems.

[kyle95wm]

UPDATE:

The following lists still error out:

• https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts;showintro=0
• https://bitbucket.org/ethanr/dns-blacklists/raw/8575c9f96e5b4a1308f2f12394abd86d0927a4a0/bad_lists/Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt

[kyle95wm]

Here is the output of when I ran

pihole -g

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pihole -g [i] Neutrino emissions detected... [✓] Pulling blocklist source list into range

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: mirror1.malwaredomains.com (justdomains) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: sysctl.org (hosts) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: zeustracker.abuse.ch (blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_tracking.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_ad.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (ad_servers.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (grm.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: reddestdream.github.io (minimalhosts) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (w3kbl.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: adaway.org (hosts.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (AdguardDNS.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_ad.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (ad_servers.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Easylist.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (CK's-Spotify-HOSTS-FilterList.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: pgl.yoyo.org (serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts;showintro=0) [✗] Status: Connection Refused [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Easyprivacy.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Prigent-Ads.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (trackers.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (spy.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: s3.amazonaws.com (simple_malvertising.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: mirror1.malwaredomains.com (justdomains) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (exp.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (emd.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: hosts-file.net (psh.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: mirror.cedia.org.ec (immortal_domains.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: www.malwaredomainlist.com (hosts.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: bitbucket.org (Mandiant_APT1_Report_Appendix_D.txt) [✗] Status: Connection Refused [✗] List download failed: no cached list available

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Prigent-Malware.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Prigent-Phishing.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (malicious-sites.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: ransomwaretracker.abuse.ch (RW_DOMBL.txt) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: v.firebog.net (Shalla-mal.txt) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[i] Target: raw.githubusercontent.com (hosts) [✓] Status: Retrieval successful

[i] Target: zeustracker.abuse.ch (blocklist.php?download=domainblocklist) [✓] Status: No changes detected

[✓] Consolidating blocklists [✓] Extracting domains from blocklists [i] Number of domains being pulled in by gravity: 537309 [✓] Removing duplicate domains [i] Number of unique domains trapped in the Event Horizon: 345144 [i] Nothing to whitelist! [✓] Parsing domains into hosts format [✓] Cleaning up stray matter

[✓] Force-reloading DNS service [✓] DNS service is running [✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled

[kyle95wm]

So I did some more research to discover that Skynet (a firewall extension for my Asuswrt-Merlin-powered router, was causing connection to those lists to be blocked (perhaps the IPs made it onto some sort of “bad guy” or “malware” blacklist that Skynet looks at. After disabling Skynet, my lists update perfectly. Guess this issue can be closed now. Sorry for any inconvenience.