Blocky installer

Supported and tested on distros:

• CentOS 7/8, Fedora 35
• Debian 11, Ubuntu 20

What is Blocky

Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go.

Official repository:

• https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky.git
• Official installation manual

Installer features

installer.sh it is a bash script for install Blocky to:

• Blocky will installs as systemctl unit service to /opt/blocky catalog as default.
• After install Blocky works under regular blockyuser user.

Note: All features tested. deployed and using on CentOS 7/8, Fedora 35, Debian 11, Ubuntu 20

Features

• Install from scratch to rpm based distros
  • Steb-by-step installer
  • Automate installer (CentOS/Fedora)
• Detect and download latest blocky release from official repo
• Install under simple user
  • New user creation
  • Allow to user using privileged ports (aka 53) without sudo
  • Allow to user start, stop, enable, disable blocky service
  • Create systemctl unit service
  • Generate simple config.yml
• Reinstall blocky
• Uninstall blocky
• Backup blocky
• Install additional software (optionally for CentOS/Fedora):
  • Cloudflared
  • Cerbot
  • Nginx
• Add restarter script

Install Prometheus Stack

Additionally you can install Prometheus stack to you own CentOS 8 server:

• Prometheus
• Node Exporter
• Grafana

See more info on this repository:

• https://github.com/m0zgen/install-prometheus-stack

DNS Testing

You can define DNS servers list and will test response speed with statistics - average, min, max response time:

• https://github.com/m0zgen/dns-tester