Telnet API

Connect via e.g. telnet 127.0.0.1 4711 or use echo ">command" | nc 127.0.0.1 4711

  • >quit: Closes the connection to the client

  • >stats : Get current statistics

    domains_being_blocked 116007
    dns_queries_today 30163
    ads_blocked_today 5650
    ads_percentage_today 18.731558
    unique_domains 1056
    queries_forwarded 4275
    queries_cached 20238
    clients_ever_seen 11
    unique_clients 9
    status enabled
    
  • >overTime : over time data (10 min intervals)

    1525546500 163 0
    1525547100 154 1
    1525547700 164 0
    1525548300 167 0
    1525548900 151 0
    1525549500 143 0
    [...]
    
  • >top-domains : get top domains

    0 8462 x.y.z.de
    1 236 safebrowsing-cache.google.com
    2 116 pi.hole
    3 109 z.y.x.de
    4 93 safebrowsing.google.com
    5 96 plus.google.com
    [...]
    

    Variant: >top-domains (15) to show (up to) 15 entries

  • >top-ads : get top ad domains

    0 8 googleads.g.doubleclick.net
    1 6 www.googleadservices.com
    2 1 cdn.mxpnl.com
    3 1 collector.githubapp.com
    4 1 www.googletagmanager.com
    5 1 s.zkcdn.net
    [...]
    

    Variant: >top-ads (14) to show (up to) 14 entries

  • top-clients : get recently active top clients (IP addresses + hostnames (if available))

    0 9373 192.168.2.1 router
    1 484 192.168.2.2 work-machine
    2 8 127.0.0.1 localhost
    

    Variant: >top-clients (9) to show (up to) 9 client entries or >top-clients withzero (15) to show (up to) 15 clients even if they have not been active recently (see PR #124 for further details)

  • >forward-dest : get forward destinations (IP addresses + hostnames (if available)) along with the percentage. The first result (ID -2) will always be the percentage of domains answered from blocklists, whereas the second result (ID -1) will be the queries answered from the cache

    -2 18.70 blocklist blocklist
    -1 67.10 cache cache
    0 14.20 127.0.0.1 localhost
    

    Variant: >forward-dest unsorted to show forward destinations in unsorted order (equivalent to using >forward-names)

  • >querytypes : get collected query types percentage

    A (IPv4): 53.45
    AAAA (IPv6): 45.32
    ANY: 0.00
    SRV: 0.64
    SOA: 0.05
    PTR: 0.54
    TXT: 0.00
    
  • >getallqueries : get all queries that FTL has in memory

    1525554586 A fonts.googleapis.com 192.168.2.100 3 0 4 6
    1525554586 AAAA fonts.googleapis.com 192.168.2.100 3 0 4 5
    1525554586 A www.mkdocs.org 192.168.2.100 3 0 4 7
    1525554586 AAAA www.mkdocs.org 192.168.2.100 2 0 3 21
    1525554586 A squidfunk.github.io 192.168.2.100 2 0 3 20
    1525554586 A pi-hole.net 192.168.2.100 3 0 4 5
    1525554586 AAAA squidfunk.github.io 192.168.2.100 3 0 1 6
    1525554586 AAAA pi-hole.net 192.168.2.100 2 0 1 18
    1525554586 A github.com 192.168.2.100 3 0 4 5
    1525554586 AAAA github.com 192.168.2.100 2 0 1 18
    

    Variants: >getallqueries (37) show (up to) 37 latest entries, >getallqueries-time 1483964295 1483964312 gets all queries that FTL has in its database in a limited time interval, >getallqueries-time 1483964295 1483964312 (17) show matches in the (up to) 17 latest entries, >getallqueries-domain www.google.com gets all queries that FTL has in its database for a specific domain name, >getallqueries-client 2.3.4.5 : gets all queries that FTL has in its database for a specific client name or IP

  • >recentBlocked : get most recently pi-holed domain name

    www.googleadservices.com
    

    Variant: >recentBlocked (4) show the four most recent blocked domains

  • >clientID : Get ID of currently connected client

    6
    
  • >version : Get version information of the currently running FTL instance

    version v1.6-3-g106498d-dirty
    tag v1.6
    branch master
    hash 106498d
    date 2017-03-26 13:10:43 +0200
    
  • >dbstats : Get some statistics about FTL's' long-term storage database (this request may take some time for processing in case of a large database file)

    queries in database: 2700304
    database filesize: 199.20 MB
    SQLite version: 3.23.1
    
  • >domain pi-hole.net: Get detailed information about domain (if available)

    Domain "pi-hole.net", ID: 254
    Total: 179
    Blocked: 0
    Wildcard blocked: false
    
  • >cacheinfo: Get DNS server cache size and usage information

    cache-size: 500000
    cache-live-freed: 0
    cache-inserted: 15529
    

Last update: February 5, 2020
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