Failed to be populated if /tmp/piholeIP does not exist. This may happen under
the following conditions:
- was not generated during install
- gravity.sh being run again after the original install (the file is deleted
during the installation process)
Updated piholeIP because if there are multiple network adapters, the gravity list will populate incorrectly with both IP addresses. Only one address should be used.
Temporary hack for /etc/pihole directory and file permissions to pull out sudo requirement. (Irony is that is requires sudo.) This will be fixed later, but for now it's needed for existing installs so they don't break.
This seems to be the more appropriate URL:
http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.txt.
I compared it to the original URL using opendiff and they are exactly
the same.
In my case there had been no whitespace in piholeIP (I configured it statically because 'hostname -I' returns multiple IP addresses, which ends in errornous hosts file), so it's more safe to add one between IP and hostname.
Further, I removed the obsolete latentBlacklist variable.
Due to so many users having issues with this list blocking legitimate
domains such as microsoft.com, apple.com, xkcd.com and more, I am
turning it off by default. While this drastically reduces the amount
of domains blocked, ad-blocking performance still seems to function
quite well.
Long-time users can simply uncomment the list, but this will make it so
new users have a more pleasant experience.
If you already have the mahakala list, you will need to remove it first
with this command:
sudo rm /etc/pihole/list.2.adblock.mahakala.is.domains
There are a few other lists I am looking at including, but this will
provide an immediate fix.
I'm not 100% sure if you can add multiple IP addresses to one domain on
a single line, so I just broke it up into two. It makes the file
bigger and longer, but I'll have to see how it works
Travis Burtrum
Jacob Salmela