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What it does
Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad blocker for local networks, written in Go.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Audience
The project describes use across home networks, homelabs, and businesses, and its feature list includes client groups such as kids and smart home devices.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Deployment
The project offers a standalone binary and Docker container, with multi-architecture images and a community-supported Helm chart.Read 4 Oct 2026 · 0xerr0r.github.io
Integrations
It provides Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, REST API endpoints, and a CLI tool.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Security
It supports DNSSEC validation and says it collects no user data, telemetry, or statistics.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Support
The maintainer welcomes issues, feature suggestions, and pull requests, and invites users to contribute financially to ongoing development.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Blocking
It blocks DNS queries using external ad-blocking and malware lists, supports allowlisting, and can apply lists by client group.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Caching
It offers configurable DNS answer caching and prefetching for frequently used queries.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Configuration
Blocky uses one or more YAML configuration files and is described as stateless, with no database or temporary files required.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
DNS configuration
It supports custom DNS resolution, conditional forwarding, and upstream resolvers assigned by client group.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
DNS protocols
It supports DNS over UDP and TCP, HTTPS, TLS, QUIC, and HTTPS/3.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Query logging
DNS query logs can be stored in CSV or MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or Timescale databases.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com
Supported hardware
The project lists support for x86-64, ARM, and MIPS architectures, including Raspberry Pi and OpenWrt routers.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

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Blocky Free Free and open source · self-hosted DNS proxy Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

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