Re: [Staffslug] Speed things up

Re-sent as I sent from wrong account  :-) What that looks like is a block list for a load of websites,  shock sites and advertising sites,   if you were to put it in /etc/hosts when your machine went to connect to any of those servers (or try to) instead of connecting to them it would try to connect to itself instead and fail. Basically on a normal linux box when you ask your machine to connect to say news.bbc.co.uk  it will need to look up the IP address associated with it. The first place it checks is in /etc/hosts and then it will look at your DNS server.   By putting these entries into your hosts file you overrule what ever is in DNS. The format in your hosts file is : ip.address         servername.com 127.0.0.1 is the "loopback" address on your computer,   it is not a real address as such it is a network connection that never leaves the computer. So when your computer asks for the IP address of any of those sites it is going to ask the fastest place it knows for an answer (itself) and will then fail and not load the site. This is a simple way of explaining it,  I am sure someone will nitpick on some details but I was trying to do a simplified version. Tig On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:11 PM, stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Anyone any experience with this? > > http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ > > Stuart > > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug > _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://lists.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug