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Lynx · June 30, 2023, 3:20am

We leverage something like this in adblock-lean as part of our various tests that all is well with the processed and loaded blocklist (which may include local and/or combination of merged remote blocklists) like so:

github.com

lynxthecat/adblock-lean/blob/9b28311d4e8787882fdc9c1d9af4489a1bbbb9cf/adblock-lean#L176


      
          check_dnsmasq()
          {
          	log_msg "Checking dnsmasq instance."
          
          
	if ! pgrep -x dnsmasq &> /dev/null
          	then
          		log_msg "No instance of dnsmasq detected with new blocklist."
          		return 1
          	fi
          
          
	for domain in google.com amazon.com microsoft.com
          	do
          		if ! nslookup "${domain}" 127.0.0.1 &> /dev/null 
          		then
          			log_msg "Lookup of '${domain}' failed with new blocklist."
          			return 1
          		elif nslookup "${domain}" 127.0.0.1 | grep -A1 ^Name | grep -q '^Address: *0\.0\.0\.0$'
          		then
          			log_msg "Lookup of '${domain}' resulted in 0.0.0.0 with new blocklist."
          			return 1
          		fi