Top 7 Shell Dnsmasq Projects

Pi-hole

1 2,388 60,256 9.0 Shell

A black hole for Internet advertisements

Project mention: 🏗️ Building my home server P5: Network-wide ad blocking with Pi-hole | dev.to | 2026-03-16

In my previous blog post, I covered deploying containers, configuring UFW, and setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy for my services. In this post, I'm taking things a step further by adding network-wide ad blocking to my home lab using Pi-hole. Pi-hole is a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and trackers at the network level, meaning every device on my local network benefits from it without needing any client-side software. It also comes with a slick web interface for monitoring DNS queries and managing blocklists. On top of that, I configured Pi-hole to handle local DNS resolution for all my home lab services, so I can access them by their subdomain names instead of remembering IP addresses and port numbers.
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hblock

2 29 1,974 2.5 Shell

Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains.
Maza ad blocking

3 3 1,867 5.1 Shell

Simple, native and efficient local ad blocker. Only Bash.
config

4 1 321 7.6 Shell

Configuration files and scripts used in guides and for system setup. (by drduh)
devdns

5 1 195 1.8 Shell

Automagic Docker DNS for local development
access-point

6 1 8 5.5 Shell

Project mention: Fake-AP – Bash script for a rogue Wi-Fi AP with live client/DNS telemetry | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-08
mezz

7 1 4 - Shell

A self-contained wifi sandbox for inspecting your own IoT devices

Project mention: Show HN: Mezz, a curl-able WiFi sandbox for IoT pentesting | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-15

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Dnsmasq projects in Shell? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	Pi-hole	60,256
2	hblock	1,974
3	Maza ad blocking	1,867
4	config	321
5	devdns	195
6	access-point	8
7	mezz	4

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Top 7 Shell Dnsmasq Projects

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Shell Dnsmasq related posts

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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maza-ad-blocking - Local ad blocker. Like Pi-hole but local and using your operating system.

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