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Tell users that regex lines starting in "#" will be skipped
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ We implement the ERE flavor similar to the one used by the UNIX `egrep` (or `gre
Our implementation is computationally inexpensive as each domain is only checked once for a match (if you query `google.com`, it will be checked against your RegEx. Any subsequent query to the same domain will not be checked again until you restart `pihole-FTL`).
## How to use regular expressions for blocking
*FTL*DNS reads in regular expression filters from `/etc/pihole/regex.list` (one expression per line).
*FTL*DNS reads in regular expression filters from `/etc/pihole/regex.list` (one expression per line, lines starting with `#` will be skipped).
To tell *FTL*DNS to reload the list, either:
- Execute the `>recompile-regex` API command (`echo ">recompile-regex" | nc localhost 4711`)