Blocky Setup Guide (Part 1)
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Blocky DNS blocker setup guide. This is going to be a two part. The first part provides a basic guide of setting-up Blocky on your device. The second video w...

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I just finished using this guide to get Blocky set up. Part 2 shows how to set up the grafana dashboard.

I was inspired to set up blocky instead of the other more popular alternatives due to his other video showing that blocky has the best latency of all

blocky vs pihole vs adguard

  • @MonkCanatellaOP
    2•8 months ago

    I do wish there was a web interface. It’s easier footgun yourself with an all text configuration. That said, I choose to use Blocky purely based on the performance. There is a web interface someone made but I think it’s really early stages. https://github.com/Mozart409/blocky-frontend

    What I see is that you can disable blocking (which is possible in the grafana dashboard), refresh the block list (which happens automatically when you restart the service), and run a dns query. Configuration of any sort doesn’t appear to be possible from this project.