DNSKong

[xartica]

Howdy (yeah, I'm bumping a 5 year old thread)( 'cuz I USED THE SEARCH rather than starting a new thread)

I'm using DNSKong v1.4.3, which isn't the current version.
The newer version doesn't suit me b/c it entirely lacks a UI. I don't understand (or can't respect) why, but the author elected to squeeze the app down to a 20Kb executable.

My "Named.txt" file contains 153,000+ entries.
Through the years, as the number of patterns in my blocklists grew, Proxo began "bogging"... so I looked for other options & began using DNSKong along with proxo.

I was amazed to find so few DNSKong references when I searched the prxbx.com forum just now. Although proxo is wonderful, DNSKong (with windows native DNS client service disabled) provides the additional benefit, additional PROTECTION, of blocking undesired connections BEYOND the scope of an HTTP proxy.

The current DNSKong version "sorta" handles wildcard/regexp patterns
http://www.pyrenean.com
but I just use it for patterns representing "between the dots" matching of canonical hostnames, or domains, or entire TLDs. In one of the threads I read here tonight, someone asked "how can I block access to any/all .cn domains?" Well, using DNSKong, a line placed in its "named.txt" (blocklist)
cn
does the job. Just like that. Just that easily.
Later, if you care to whitelist selected .cn sites, you can place entries for them in DNSKong's separate "pass.txt" (whitelist) file.