Diversion Diversion Regexp

[xendi]

Hi all. Maybe this has already been discussed and need not be relitigated but why use host file format? Why not regexp? regexp > hosts file format, sort of obviously?

 

[dave14305]

dnsmasq would not know how to interpret regular expressions.

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Hi all. Maybe this has already been discussed and need not be relitigated but why use host file format? Why not regexp? regexp > hosts file format, sort of obviously?

First off, while regexp is ooookay-- it does have the power to block too much. I know they can be used to reduce the size of how much is listed to be block. Fortunately, nothing works better with dnsmasq like exact domains. You would need a specially coded interpreter like Pihole uses to run regex. Diversion lacks this complex blocking. Diversion relies strictly on exact domains blocking, and limited wildcard domain blacklisting.

 

[thelonelycoder]

Hi all. Maybe this has already been discussed and need not be relitigated but why use host file format? Why not regexp? regexp > hosts file format, sort of obviously?

If it could be done I would have built in regexp a long time ago. Dnsmasq just does not support it. That's why.