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Re: [PLUG] AntiAd HOSTS file to DNS?
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This idea has some merit, to a point. It becomes a little impractical with
the shear volumn of zone files you need to maintain. I'm sure that 10,000
lines in your hosts file doesn't translate to 10,000 separate domains but
it would still be quite a handful.
Using named is possible though, just create the zones in the named.conf
file and point them all to the same zone file. named will happily handle
it for you. (Just remember to remove the $ORIGIN from the zone file.)
It does create a centralized, platform independent method of handling
this. You just need to make sure that all of the systems involved are
using your DNS server.
On the 22nd day of August in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:45:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Kam Salisbury <kam@kamsalisbury.com>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: [PLUG] AntiAd HOSTS file to DNS?
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> I have been using a rather lengthy HOSTS file for my home network machines
> in an effort to stop the web surfing pop-up ads. Overall the effort works
> well and is easy to maintain and update the few computers I have. However,
> I am lazy at times and would rather do something a bit easier. Since I
> have an internal DNS server that caches/proxies all DNS from the home
> network to my ISP (Comcast) why not create zones for the adclick and other
> pop-up domains there? My hosts file is 10,000+ lines long (yes, ten
> thousand plus).
>
> I am interested in other's feelings on this. I can see how a small company
> may want to do the same thing as well. I can also see myself and others
> sharing the dns zone files (they are just ascii after all).
>
>
>
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