Python and Bash script combo.
Simple objective to downloading and parse domain lists from the following websites:
These lovely websites collate lists of dodgy malware, parasitic websites. This Python script will download and parse this information to produce a DnsMasq Address formatted file that directs all these domains to 127.0.0.1 (When a web browser receives 127.0.0.1 as the IP address to fetch content from, it's very quickly rejects the connection)
Also, you can manually specify TLDs and domains to block - add these to the blacklist constants file domainsBlacklist.conf
Similarly you can whitelist domains in the file domainsWhitelist.conf
The Bash script takes this generated DnsMasq Address formatted file (dnsmasq.blockeddomains.conf) and places it in the standard /etc/dnsmasq.d folder to be picked up on service restart.
cd /usr/local/src/
sudo git clone https://github.com/AndersUk/DNSMasqBlockIffyDomains.git
No need to run these scripts more than once a week as updates don't happen on a regular basis, plus we don't want to cause unnecessary costs to these great services
cd /usr/local/src/DNSMasqBlockIffyDomains
sudo ./updateDNSMasqConf.sh
CRON Task to run every Sunday at midnight:
sudo crontab -e
0 0 * * 0 cd /usr/local/src/DNSMasqBlockIffyDomains/; sudo updateDNSMasqConf.sh > /dev/null 2>&1