On Wednesday 19 August 2020 07:53:43 pm William Morder via trinity-users
On Wednesday 19 August 2020 15:29:49 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2020 04:40:55 pm William
Morder via trinity-users
> You might consider creating a custom hosts file. Somewhere I believe I
> have a URL where you can download a file of hosts to block, but I have
> added to this on my own. I would be glad to share my hosts file, but it
> is big; not just big, but abnormally big, currently 16 mb.
Okay, so I did a little quick editing. It might still be kinda messy, but
feel free to edit yourself however you like.
Thanks Bill,
Note that I have duplicated the list after 127.0.0.1
and 0.0.0.0; somewhere
I read that the second is sometimes preferable for blocking hosts, so I
have used both. It doesn't seem to affect my system in any negative way.
AFAIKT 0.0.0.0 seems prefered. It's also what both StevenBlack and Peter Lowe
use, so I'd bet it's right.
If there are dire security concerns over how I have
done this, please
inform us. Otherwise, I only added to the list as I found it on github;
then I added my quickie how2 instructions. I added the moniker F.N. Eedjit
for reference, so that others can follow the chain of how the list was
built up.
I don't think there are any security concerns, but I wasn't able to follow
what was something you added or was from a block list itself. I wrote the
attached to automate it a bit, downloading StevenBlack's list weekly and
merging that into a 'user' created list, then copying it to /etc/hosts.
It's chopped up a bit from pulling out my normal includes and commented out
user testing, so eyeball it before using it.
Also as far as I could research, there are no services that need to be
reloaded/restarted after editing the hosts file. (Which I found odd,
but 'eh...)
Best,
Michael
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