I use dnsmasq for this. In addition to the speedup from local DNS caching, you can optionally use wildcards to block domains instead of specifying each subdomai

I use dnsmasq for this. In addition to the speedup from local DNS caching, you can optionally use wildcards to block domains instead of specifying each subdomain. This will get two popular hosts blocking lists and convert them to dnsmasq.conf format: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsmasq-blacklist https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsmasq-blacklist