On 2020-08-31 02:52:41 William Morder via trinity-users wrote:
On Monday 31 August 2020 00:33:33 Stefan Krusche wrote:
Hi Bill,
Am Montag 31 August 2020 schrieb William Morder via trinity-users:
I do know that I see a big difference between using a customized hosts file instead of (only) depending on ad-blockers. As soon as I overwrite the hosts file with my list, I find that my system is more stable. It's not only the ads that get blocked, it seems, but also other unwanted connections.
Sure, that's what I want as well :-) I'm using a huge /etc/hosts as well, but only with 0.0.0.0 so all requests from unwanted domains get send to nowhere without my system (localhost) trying to serve them before.
The purpose of using 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, AIUI, is to make the web server on localhost show some substitute page/image/whatever to indicate something has been blocked. If you don't have a web server running on localhost and configured to serve such requests it doesn't make sense to put 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts to my understanding.
HTH
Kind regards, Stefan
The first hosts files that I found online all put 127.0.0.1, which I blindly accepted. It seemed to work okay, but then I heard about using 0.0.0.0. My instinct was that the second choice was better; because 127.0.0.1 is also the address I use for proxy configuration, so it goes somewhere.
Better that I should send unwanted requests to nowhere, rather than any somewhere. This is why I raised the question about security in my earlier post. If proxy traffic is directed there, then there must be somewhere that it can go; and if some bad actor knows this -- well, maybe it is a stretch, but perhaps it could be used by a malicious intruder.
0.0.0.0 makes more sense.
I wonder if there are some situations in which 127.0.0.1 might be preferable, or the two variants used in tandem -- for example, you mentioned "if you have a web server"? Maybe, then, it would be useful to create a home version and a web server version.
Anyway, I don't want to go through and change items line-by-line, and to run find-and-replace will still leave me with a lot of duplicates, and the list is already big enough to be unwieldy for kedit to handle. I believe Michael mentioned some kind of script?
Bill
I would think that 0.0.0.0 is not really an address at all, whereas 127.0.0.1 (x7F 00 00 01) is the loopback address that lets the computer talk to itself. I suppose 0.0.0.0 is someone's lazy idea for not having to remember loopback. :-)
Leslie
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