tlug: Re: Addresses of banner ad sites

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@example.com> writes:

    sb> Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    >> You mentioned that you had sites that spew banner ads blocked
    >> in /etc/hosts.deny (I think it was).

    sb> It was /etc/hosts.

Gloss:  the idea is to alias the domain names to your own host.  The
name lookup will get the equivalent of localhost, query the httpd
server there (well, here, actually ;), fail to find the page, and go
merrily on.  Or if there's no httpd there, even better; the connection
is refused.

You need to have 

hosts:          files dns

in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file or the appropriate equivalent in
/etc/hosts.conf if you have a rather old libc.

    >> I mentioned this approach on TLUG and somebody asked if I could
    >> get hold of the list for them.  Will you send it to me?

    sb> This list is old ...

127.0.0.1       ad.doubleclick.net ad.linkexchange.com www.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1       ad.preferences.com leader.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1       xpagecount.com www.xpagecount.com riddler.com commonwealth.riddler.com
127.0.0.1       www.siteflow.com siteflow.com focalink.com ph-ad01.focalink.com
127.0.0.1       www.pagecount.com pagecount.com www1.pagecount.com
127.0.0.1       www2.pagecount.com www3.pagecount.com www4.pagecount.com
127.0.0.1       www5.pagecount.com drugfreeamerica.org flycast.com adex3.flycast.com
127.0.0.1       www.xpagecount.com xpagecount.com www1.xpagecount.com
127.0.0.1       www2.xpagecount.com www3.xpagecount.com www4.xpagecount.com
127.0.0.1       www5.xpagecount.com fun.pagecount.com

    sb> I presently browse with images (and Java/Javascript) turned
    sb> off and that works 100% of the time.

Works for me too, but I don't suppose that was what the original
poster had in mind!

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