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On 3/02/2002 at 9:24 PM Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[gregausit/redhat-list] wrote:
>I'm trying to come up with solutions with which I can block ads from
>websites, and also prevent loading ads from sites like doubleclick.com
>(those generally get embedded in someone else's website).
>
> A while ago I came across some post, or website where the author did
>something on his masq server which made all of those Ad sites resolve to
>localhost (127.0.0.1), which effectively prevented any of the masqed
>machines from loading any of those stupid ads. There was some huge list
>of sites that he had collected and stuck in a file. Problem is, I don't
>know where I had gotten that info from in the first place, nor what it was
>that he did that made it work. I don't know if it was a local caching DNS
>server that he had running on his masq server with a long /etc/hosts file,
>or what.
>
> So, if anyone has an idea, I'm all ears.
You want to add the sites to the local file so the box thinks they are
local, ie your application will try to connect to localhost -- this should
work on any OS, in RH the hosts file.
do a search on google, if you do not find the list message me off list ....
Regards
Greg Wright
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