DNSKong

[xartica]

In the context of DNSKong's "Named.txt" blocklist, a line containing the 2-char pattern "cn" would block, for instance:

happyslimgood.cn
ns1.cn.somesite.com

and would NOT match:

acnefix.com
cosmic.net
ebay.com/some_path_with_cn_substring_match

It performs exact "between the dots" matching against the hostname portion of a requested URL

The newer version also accomodates limited regex within patterns.

Quote:A significant portion of this reduction...
...and capable of operating on Windows as-well-as Linux and BSD.

Yes, thank you, I've read that. I've also repeatedly corresponded with the author, begging him to reconsider his choice to discontinue development of a version which contains a UI. He indicated that the intended, or expected, audience for the app was corporate network admins, not laypeople... then typed a long aside, blathering about his pet 'fastflux botnet detection' algorithm coded into the newer version... and seemed unsympathetic toward my suggestion that distributing a more user-friendly version, to a larger userbase, would provide "a greater good".