TheGreatWall VS blocklists

Compare TheGreatWall vs blocklists and see what are their differences.

TheGreatWall

Prevent program and malware to bypass DNS filter by using DoH (by Sekhan)
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TheGreatWall blocklists
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103 231
- 0.9%
0.0 0.0
almost 2 years ago over 1 year ago
MIT License -
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TheGreatWall

Posts with mentions or reviews of TheGreatWall. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-24.
  • Restrict DNS resolution to pihole only
    3 projects | /r/pihole | 24 Feb 2023
    Here's lists: https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall
  • AdGuard Home and dealing with DoH
    4 projects | /r/Adguard | 17 Mar 2022
    I run Pfsense and am able to block most common DoH services. I’m sure you will be able to configure similar options on opnsense. The best way to do this is a DNS block through AGH and an IP block with opnsense. Firefox provides what domains to block to disable their DoH, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-disable-dns-over-https. You can also add these two lists to block most other common DoH services, https://github.com/oneoffdallas/dohservers, https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall. These lists will work with AGH for DNS blocking and for IP blocking aliases. If you have any Apple devices on your network you can use these domains to block private relay, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Rogacz/private-relay/main/pr2.txt. I recommend you add these private relay domains as a custom entry in AGH to return NXDOMAIN so that the device shows that private relay is unavailable versus using a NULL response where it will say it’s available when it really isn’t. With these lists added to DNS blocklists as well as IP blocklists I have seen almost no DoH services getting through. The only service that I’ve experienced getting through the rules so far is Next DNS since it uses different IPs depending on what is fastest for your location, making it harder to block. I found a way to discover the IPs for their servers near you and will edit the post if I find the instructions again. Also make sure to completely block port 853 to block DoT. Lastly using these instructions from Pfsense, you can redirect or block all DNS queries that aren’t destined for your AGH instance. The instructions should be transferable to opnsense.
  • Device has not a single query?
    1 project | /r/pihole | 3 Jan 2022
    You can also have the pihole block these DoH servers, using this: https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall/blob/master/TheGreatWall.txt but for applications that have a list DoH IP's hardwired into them, then pihole blocking won't catch those because they connect without DNS lookups. You have to block them at your firewall.
  • PSA - Netflix on iOS seems to be contacting 8.8.8.8 (Google DNS) a lot, possibly to circumvent blocking
    1 project | /r/pihole | 15 Dec 2021
  • Blocklist for DNS over HTTPS?
    4 projects | /r/pihole | 22 Oct 2021
  • How long until Google [and others] use https://8.8.8.8 internally, and hence bypass Pi-Hole?
    2 projects | /r/pihole | 28 Jun 2021
  • Any guide to catching and redirecting DoH traffic?
    1 project | /r/opnsense | 13 Jun 2021
  • Adguar home question
    2 projects | /r/Adguard | 23 Mar 2021
    Original: https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall
  • Android defaults to 8.8.8.8 as secondary DNS with Pi-hole as DHCP server
    2 projects | /r/pihole | 19 Mar 2021
    Another test is android also offers Private DNS under advanced settings if set to automatic it will send requests to google DoH, turn this off and see if that changes anything. You could also add the The Great Wall DoH pihole blocklist to see if that helps too: https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall/blob/master/TheGreatWall.txt
  • Blocking DNS over HTTPS Suggestions
    1 project | /r/homelab | 15 Jan 2021
    Hopefully this helps: https://github.com/Sekhan/TheGreatWall

blocklists

Posts with mentions or reviews of blocklists. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TheGreatWall and blocklists you can also consider the following projects:

Inversion-DNSBL-Blocklists - Malicious URLs identified by scanning various public URL sources using the Google Safe Browsing API (over 6 billion URLs scanned daily)

NSABlocklist-pi-hole-edition - HOSTS file to block most known NSA / GCHQ / C.I.A. / F.B.I. spying servers. List is optimized for pi-hole.

pihole-phishtank-list - A blocklist for Pihole from PhishTank

ut1-blacklists - Collection of websites blacklists managed by the Université Toulouse Capitole

Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

windows-telemetry-blocklist - Blocks outgoing Windows telemetry, compatible with Pi-Hole.

DoH

ya-pihole-list - A bunch of useful pi-hole adlists and a auto updater.

1Hosts - World's most advanced DNS filter-/blocklists!

PiHoleblocklists - Blacklists with data from OTX.ALIENVAULT.COM.

doh-cf-workers - DNS-over-HTTPS proxy on Cloudflare Workers