#2269·blocky

[Feat] Read Acrylic dns proxy extended hosts format

Author: fimmspinCreated Sep 16, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026

To do easy migration from Acrylic dns proxy, allow using that format of hosts file directly. It is an 'extended' hosts format, allowing many many entries, even with wildcards, on the same line. It seems Blocky wants a single wildcard record per line, right?

Acrylic example: 0.0.0.0 www.blockads.com *.blockads2.com >blockads3.com .ru otherads.com www.*moreads.com manyads.com 192.168.10.2 server dbserver.lan 192.168.10.3 erp.lan

More info on the format at: https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Hosts.htm

Other commands in the hosts file like FW or NX are not necessary, just reading the hosts to block as 0.0.0.0 or import manual ip addresses to map as A records.

Thats all.