upstream: default: - 127.0.0.1:53 # example for DNS-over-TLS server (DoT) ## - tcp-tls:fdns1.dismail.de:853 # example for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) ## - https://dns.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/dns-query # optional: use client name (with wildcard support: * - sequence of any characters, [0-9] - range) # or single ip address / client subnet as CIDR notation ## laptop*: ## - 123.123.123.123 # optional: timeout to query the upstream resolver. Default: 2s upstreamTimeout: 2s # optional: If true, blocky will fail to start unless at least one upstream server per group is reachable. Default: false startVerifyUpstream: false # optional: Determines how blocky will create outgoing connections. This impacts both upstreams, and lists. # accepted: dual, v4, v6 # default: dual connectIPVersion: dual # optional: custom IP address(es) for domain name (with all sub-domains). Multiple addresses must be separated by a comma # example: query "printer.lan" or "my.printer.lan" will return 192.168.178.3 ##customDNS: ## customTTL: 1h # optional: if true (default), return empty result for unmapped query types (for example TXT, MX or AAAA if only IPv4 address is defined). # if false, queries with unmapped types will be forwarded to the upstream resolver ## filterUnmappedTypes: true # optional: replace domain in the query with other domain before resolver lookup in the mapping ## rewrite: ## example.com: printer.lan ## mapping: ## printer.lan: 192.168.178.3,2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7344 # optional: definition, which DNS resolver(s) should be used for queries to the domain (with all sub-domains). Multiple resolvers must be separated by a comma # Example: Query client.fritz.box will ask DNS server 192.168.178.1. This is necessary for local network, to resolve clients by host name ##conditional: # optional: if false (default), return empty result if after rewrite, the mapped resolver returned an empty answer. If true, the original query will be sent to the upstream resolver # Example: The query "blog.example.com" will be rewritten to "blog.fritz.box" and also redirected to the resolver at 192.168.178.1. If not found and if `fallbackUpstream` was set to `true`, the original query "blog.example.com" will be sent upstream. # Usage: One usecase when having split DNS for internal and external (internet facing) users, but not all subdomains are listed in the internal domain. ## fallbackUpstream: false # optional: replace domain in the query with other domain before resolver lookup in the mapping ## rewrite: ## example.com: fritz.box ## mapping: ## fritz.box: 192.168.178.1 ## lan.net: 192.168.178.1,192.168.178.2 # optional: use black and white lists to block queries (for example ads, trackers, adult pages etc.) blocking: # definition of blacklist groups. Can be external link (http/https) or local file blackLists: ads: - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts - https://adguardteam.github.io/AdGuardSDNSFilter/Filters/filter.txt clientGroupsBlock: # default will be used, if no special definition for a client name exists default: - ads blockType: nxDomain # optional: TTL for answers to blocked domains # default: 6h blockTTL: 2h # optional: automatically list refresh period (in duration format). Default: 4h. # Negative value -> deactivate automatically refresh. # 0 value -> use default refreshPeriod: 12h # optional: timeout for list download (each url). Default: 60s. Use large values for big lists or slow internet connections downloadTimeout: 4m # optional: Download attempt timeout. Default: 60s downloadAttempts: 5 # optional: Time between the download attempts. Default: 1s downloadCooldown: 10s # optional: if failOnError, application startup will fail if at least one list can't be downloaded / opened. Default: blocking startStrategy: failOnError # optional: configuration for caching of DNS responses caching: # duration how long a response must be cached (min value). # If <=0, use response's TTL, if >0 use this value, if TTL is smaller # Default: 0 minTime: -1 # duration how long a response must be cached (max value). # If <0, do not cache responses # If 0, use TTL # If > 0, use this value, if TTL is greater # Default: 0 maxTime: 0 # Max number of cache entries (responses) to be kept in cache (soft limit). Useful on systems with limited amount of RAM. # Default (0): unlimited maxItemsCount: 0 # if true, will preload DNS results for often used queries (default: names queried more than 5 times in a 2-hour time window) # this improves the response time for often used queries, but significantly increases external traffic # default: false prefetching: true # prefetch track time window (in duration format) # default: 120 prefetchExpires: 24h # name queries threshold for prefetch # default: 5 prefetchThreshold: 2 # Max number of domains to be kept in cache for prefetching (soft limit). Useful on systems with limited amount of RAM. # Default (0): unlimited prefetchMaxItemsCount: 0 # Time how long negative results (NXDOMAIN response or empty result) are cached. A value of -1 will disable caching for negative results. # Default: 30m cacheTimeNegative: 30m # optional: configuration of client name resolution ##clientLookup: # optional: this DNS resolver will be used to perform reverse DNS lookup (typically local router) ## upstream: 192.168.178.1 # optional: some routers return multiple names for client (host name and user defined name). Define which single name should be used. # Example: take second name if present, if not take first name ## singleNameOrder: ## - 2 ## - 1 # optional: custom mapping of client name to IP addresses. Useful if reverse DNS does not work properly or just to have custom client names. ## clients: ## laptop: ## - 192.168.178.29 # optional: configuration for prometheus metrics endpoint prometheus: # enabled if true enable: true # url path, optional (default '/metrics') path: /metrics # optional: write query information (question, answer, client, duration etc.) to daily csv file ##queryLog: # optional one of: mysql, postgresql, csv, csv-client. If empty, log to console ## type: mysql # directory (should be mounted as volume in docker) for csv, db connection string for mysql/postgresql ## target: db_user:db_password@tcp(db_host_or_ip:3306)/db_name?charset=utf8mb4&parseTime=True&loc=Local #postgresql target: postgres://user:password@db_host_or_ip:5432/db_name # if > 0, deletes log files which are older than ... days ## logRetentionDays: 7 # optional: Max attempts to create specific query log writer, default: 3 ## creationAttempts: 1 # optional: Time between the creation attempts, default: 2s ## creationCooldown: 2s # optional: Which fields should be logged. You can choose one or more from: clientIP, clientName, responseReason, responseAnswer, question, duration. If not defined, it logs all fields ## fields: ## - clientIP ## - duration # optional: Blocky can synchronize its cache and blocking state between multiple instances through redis. ##redis: # Server address and port or master name if sentinel is used ## address: redismaster # Username if necessary ## username: usrname # Password if necessary ## password: passwd # Database, default: 0 ## database: 2 # Connection is required for blocky to start. Default: false ## required: true # Max connection attempts, default: 3 ## connectionAttempts: 10 # Time between the connection attempts, default: 1s ## connectionCooldown: 3s # Sentinal username if necessary ## sentinelUsername: usrname # Sentinal password if necessary ## sentinelPassword: passwd # List with address and port of sentinel hosts(sentinel is activated if at least one sentinel address is configured) ## sentinelAddresses: ## - redis-sentinel1:26379 ## - redis-sentinel2:26379 ## - redis-sentinel3:26379 # optional: Mininal TLS version that the DoH and DoT server will use minTlsServeVersion: 1.3 # if https port > 0: path to cert and key file for SSL encryption. if not set, self-signed certificate will be generated #certFile: server.crt #keyFile: server.key # optional: use these DNS servers to resolve blacklist urls and upstream DNS servers. It is useful if no system DNS resolver is configured, and/or to encrypt the bootstrap queries. bootstrapDns: ## - tcp+udp:1.1.1.1 ## - https://1.1.1.1/dns-query ## - upstream: https://dns.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/dns-query ## ips: ## - 185.95.218.42 # optional: drop all queries with following query types. Default: empty ##filtering: ## queryTypes: ## - AAAA # optional: if path defined, use this file for query resolution (A, AAAA and rDNS). Default: empty ##hostsFile: # optional: Path to hosts file (e.g. /etc/hosts on Linux) ## filePath: /etc/hosts # optional: TTL, default: 1h ## hostsTTL: 60m # optional: Time between hosts file refresh, default: 1h ## refreshPeriod: 30m # optional: Whether loopback hosts addresses (127.0.0.0/8 and ::1) should be filtered or not, default: false ## filterLoopback: true # optional: ports configuration ##port: # optional: DNS listener port(s) and bind ip address(es), default 53 (UDP and TCP). Example: 53, :53, "127.0.0.1:5353,[::1]:5353" port: 53 # optional: Port(s) and bind ip address(es) for DoT (DNS-over-TLS) listener. Example: 853, 127.0.0.1:853 ## tls: 853 # optional: Port(s) and optional bind ip address(es) to serve HTTPS used for prometheus metrics, pprof, REST API, DoH... If you wish to specify a specific IP, you can do so such as 192.168.0.1:443. Example: 443, :443, 127.0.0.1:443,[::1]:443 ## https: 443 ## # optional: Port(s) and optional bind ip address(es) to serve HTTP used for prometheus metrics, pprof, REST API, DoH... If you wish to specify a specific IP, you can do so such as 192.168.0.1:4000. Example: 4000, :4000, 127.0.0.1:4000,[::1]:4000 httpPort: 4000 # optional: logging configuration ##log: # optional: Log level (one from debug, info, warn, error). Default: info ## level: info # optional: Log format (text or json). Default: text ## format: text # optional: log timestamps. Default: true ## timestamp: true # optional: obfuscate log output (replace all alphanumeric characters with *) for user sensitive data like request domains or responses to increase privacy. Default: false ## privacy: false # optional: add EDE error codes to dns response ede: # enabled if true, Default: false enable: true