Reference Servers

As of Sep. 2024, servers used as references for filtering are no longer listed. This is primarily due to the time and effort required to find suitable reference servers that are also willing to be publicly listed as such, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to replace servers removed from the list.

Blocks from reference servers are now only used to filter down the sunny.garden blocklist to include the most widely blocked “worst of the worst” domains. In practice, this has been the case since Nov. 2023, but it is now enforced as a requirement.

Reference servers are selected which have compatible values, operate relatively independently of each other, and are known to actively monitor and block problematic domains.