8:42 p.m.
I haven't see this before.. Looks interesting.. Wonder how well it works?
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8:48 p.m.
It looks like it might be sane, though I trust myself not to have to
resort to something like it.
I also dread to think the following:
- It may inadvertently affect a site that I want to look at or am
trying to debug for someone else. (I work for a hosting firm!)
- It's only someone's idea of what shouldn't be viewed, not everyone's.
Perhaps if I had children I would contemplate it a little further,
however.
Tom
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:11 +0100, stuart bell wrote:
Anyone any experience with this?
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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8:50 p.m.
It looks like it would work reasonably well, but for a small number of
sites considering how many there are out there... Easier to just use
something like dansguardian with auto-updating blacklists I would have
thought?
Adam
On 2 June 2010 20:11, stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone any experience with this?
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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8:56 p.m.
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> wrote:
Anyone any experience with this?
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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9:13 p.m.
Can't you do all this stuff with an OpenDNS account?
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com> wrote:
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> wrote:
> Anyone any experience with this?
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> http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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> Stuart
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On 02/06/10 20:56, Tig wrote:
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.
*He's not going to let up all day after what I'm about to say*
That has to be the best 'DNS for Dummies' I have ever read. Simple,
clear and with an easy to understand example.
Well done Tig.
P.S. Somebody should stick that on the website.
9:37 a.m.
*falls off chair in shock*
Ok who are you and what have you done with the real Dick Turpin?!? ;-)
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:01 AM, Peter Cannon <dick_turpin(a)archlinux.us>wrote:
On 02/06/10 20:56, Tig wrote:
> 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.
*He's not going to let up all day after what I'm about to say*
That has to be the best 'DNS for Dummies' I have ever read. Simple,
clear and with an easy to understand example.
Well done Tig.
P.S. Somebody should stick that on the website.
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