Very good point Ben :p some people dont like relying on things outside of their control though.. Sign onto mondays meeting btw! :p Adam -original message- Subject: Re: [Staffslug] Speed things up From: Ben Skan <ben.skan(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: 02/06/2010 21:13 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&gt; 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&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 > _______________________________________________ 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