blocky
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Blocky is a self-hosted DNS proxy and ad-blocker aimed at home networks, homelabs, and small business environments. It filters DNS requests using external blocklists and allowlists, supports...
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Features
- DNS query blocking
- Allow/deny lists per client group
- Regex filtering
- Deep CNAME inspection
- Custom DNS resolution
- Conditional forwarding
- Per-group upstream resolvers
- DNS caching and prefetching
- DNS over HTTPS/TLS/QUIC/HTTPS3
- REST API endpoints
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 11, 2026
- Created
- Nov 6, 2019
- Install Methods
- dockerkubernetesbinarysource
- Requirements
- GoYAML configurationPrometheusGrafanaMySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/Timescale (for query logging)
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- GoDocker
- Privacy & Independence
- No TelemetryNo Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Container image available
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