Anno domini 2020 Mon, 31 Aug 09:33:33 +0200
Stefan Krusche scripsit:
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
I had a blacklist in /etc/hists some time ago, too - autogerated, always fresh from the
net. One could argue if that was a good ide. Anyways this is the sniplet from rc.local:
# HOSTS-Datei mit Adblocker :-)
(
sleep 5m
cat > /etc/hosts << XXX
# insert your hostname here
127.0.0.1 localhost t61
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
XXX
wget
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt -O - 2>/dev/null | grep ^0.0.0.0 >>
/etc/hosts
) &
But some time ago my old firewall died. I replaced it with a RPi1+OpenWRT. There's a
package for openwrt that does basicly the same thing (as does pihole - which I was inclied
to use earlier ut turned out to be mostly marketing blablabla). I cannot say if these DNS
based nirvanas are any good. But together with uMatrix and uBlockOrigin it does a decent
good job.
Nik
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