goldfix / pighosts

Small project to import Blocklist Collection in your Hosts file.

pigHosts

• Latest version:
• Download blocklist hosts from remote sites.
• Add and remove blocklist hosts, from your hosts file.
• Possibility to customize your download blocklist links.
• Possibility to esclude specific hosts.
• Windows & Linux version.

Use:

pigHost

Usage:
 pigHost (load | unload | force_init) [--debug] | (--version) | (--check-update)
 pigHost (--help | -h)

Options:
 -h, --help       help online
 -v, --version    view version
 --check-update   check if there is a new version
 --debug          view debug info

Command:
 load           load custom hosts from external urls declared in the file: '<USER_FOLDER>/.pigHosts/pigHosts.urls'
 unload         disable and remove custom hosts
 force_init     delete and create a new set of configuration files: '<USER_FOLDER>/.pigHosts/pigHosts.excluded' and '<USER_FOLDER>/.pigHosts/pigHosts.urls'

Configuration files:

When you started first time pigHost, will be created two configuration file:

• <USER_FOLDER>/.pigHosts/pigHosts.excluded : list of hosts to esclude. These hosts are excluded, if present, from blocklist.
• <USER_FOLDER>/.pigHosts/pigHosts.urls : in this file you can add your list of urls where to download blocklist .

Important notes

Some antivirus locks .../etc/hosts file. Remember to configure the antivirus correctly so not to block this file.

• On Windows is necessary run pigHosts as Administrator.
• On Linux is necessary run pigHosts with elevated privileges (sudo pighost ...).

Build from source

• Download go-task.
• Set your GOPATH environment variable.
• In the ./src folder, execute command: task build-mod-vendor.

Thanks to:

Blocklist Collection sites:

• https://firebog.net/
• https://www.squidblacklist.org/
• https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
• https://someonewhocares.org/

Tools and libraries:

• https://github.com/docopt/docopt.go
• https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus
• https://github.com/go-task/task
• https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser
• https://github.com/briandowns/spinner