Diversion Custom block list stopped working

[chewy74]

I've been using a custom block list from https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts and it just stopped working. Updating the list just says " This address did not respond, check its validity."
The address is valid and active, but diversion is not showing it as active.

Anyone know what to do?

Thanks for the help

 

[chewy74]

Anybody

 

[Treadler]

I've been using a custom block list from https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/hosts and it just stopped working. Updating the list just says " This address did not respond, check its validity."
The address is valid and active, but diversion is not showing it as active.

Anyone know what to do?

Thanks for the help

That list is in ‘hosts’ format.
Diversion needs lists in ‘dnsmasq’ format.

 

[chewy74]

That list is in ‘hosts’ format.
Diversion needs lists in ‘dnsmasq’ format.

Thanks.

Is there any way to convert it to dnsmasq so it can be used?

 

[Treadler]

Thanks.

Is there any way to convert it to dnsmasq so it can be used?

‘Energized’ & ‘hblock’ both have dnsmasq lists that include the list you want.
There may be others……

 

[chewy74]

‘Energized’ & ‘hblock’ both have dnsmasq lists that include the list you want.
There may be others……

Thanks for the help. I got it

 

[Davidncali001]

The current version of Diversion does support both hosts file format and dnsmasq format, and has for some time now.

If you’re still having problems, I would try uninstalling diversion then reinstall. That’s what worked for me when I had problems with diversion.

 

[Treadler]

The current version of Diversion does support both hosts file format and dnsmasq format, and has for some time now.

If you’re still having problems, I would try uninstalling diversion then reinstall. That’s what worked for me when I had problems with diversion.

Please pardon my ignorance, didn’t know that different format lists were supported.

 

[jrichard326]

However, it seems more efficient to have the dnsmasq version of your lists:

With Diversion 5.0 the following formats to block domains are supported:

- Traditional hosts list, an IP-domain pair. Examples: 0.0.0.0 domain.com or 127.0.0.1 domain.com
- Traditional domains only list. Example: domain.com
- Dnsmasq address format. Example, note the number sign after last slash: address=/domain.com/#
- Dnsmasq local or server format. Examples: local=/domain.com/ or server=/domain.com/

Diversion 5.0 converts all these to the Dnsmasq local format: local=/domain.com/

So ideally a new list would be in local or server format. These lists are generally optimized for Dnsmasq, while traditional lists are generally not.