[Feature Request] Add Blocky DNS server

[brokoler]

Hello,

after years of using Adguard Home I found a similar DNS server which excels in performance, stability and customization:
https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky

The configuration is well explained and required only a single YAML file:
https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/latest/configuration/

It would be great to have it on OPNsense.

Best regards

[mimugmail]

I had blocky package in repo for a bit but it broke build process, I can have a second look.

[gspannu]

Hello,

after years of using Adguard Home I found a similar DNS server which excels in performance, stability and customization: https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky

The configuration is well explained and required only a single YAML file: https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/latest/configuration/

It would be great to have it on OPNsense.

Best regards

I had created a plugin for Blocky long back… latest updates available here(Removed link as was not appropriate). It contains AGH, Blocky, ControlD, NextDNS…

The whole repo is heavily inspired from mimugmail original repo… and most of it is mimugmail’s work.
The repo was private, but have made it public… (removed)

[mimugmail]

Inspired ;) You took the source, replaced your name in copyright and build a pkg. Not the way open source works ;)

[gspannu]

Inspired ;) You took the source, replaced your name in copyright and build a pkg. Not the way open source works ;)

Apologies. That was never the intent or purpose... and yes, fully accept that I am in the fault here.

I did use your work to create the NextDNS, ControlD and BlockyDNS plugins - but fully accept that these should not have been made public.

Have removed the public repo... hope that you will be gracious to forget this episode.

[mimugmail]

No need to remove everything, you can host all stuff via github, everyone is free to do so, but keeping copyright or extendind when adding features. :)

If you like you can PR your plugins to me repo and I can host them in community repo with your name, but I need to build blocky and controld as a pkg.

No need to worry :)

[brokoler]

That's really sad now, I started to use gspannu's repo to install blocky on OPNsense which worked perfectly fine.

Any plans to bring it back or add it to mimugmail's repo?

Blocky is awesome! I miss it in the repos! :(

[gspannu]

@brokoler
I’ll make the repo public for now…. So you can continue to use this.

Eventually it makes sense to tie this up with mimugmail community repo…. I’ll liaise with mimugmail to take this forward.

[brokoler]

I'm sure you two will find a good solution, thanks a lot for the temporary fix!

[mimugmail]

@gspannu I just kicked a build of blocky, if it works we can use your plugin with the port.
ControlD seems not to have a freebsd port, if you'd also like to host them I need to replace the binary on my own.

If it's ok for you, just make the src-repo public again and I'll upload the source untouched (besides the binarys) :)

[gspannu]

@mimugmail

Made the sources public as requested.

• It contains Blocky, ControlD and NextDNS (with the latest as of now binaries); with the limitation that the binary updates have to be done manually.
• Please ignore the AGH plugin.

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• Would be great (if possible) if you could modify the code to 'fetch' the latest binaries

• The speedtest plugin contains 2 widget files (.../www/js/widgets/metadata/speedtest.xml and .../www/js/widgets/speedtest.js). Would much appreciate if you could include these in your speedtest plugin, so that the speedtest dashboard widget can be enabled in OPNsense 25.x.

• Please publish the plugins under your name as part of your community repo.

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Just an idea... It may be better to have 3 or more separate community repo packages.

1. Speedtest
2. DNS services (AGH, Blocky, ControlD, NextDNS)
3. xxxx

Thank you...