Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:43:24 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Mike Irwin <mdi@foobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: ad banner hack Message-ID: <20020327024127.U56651-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020326222702.C11556@foo.bar>
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Mike Irwin wrote: > Steve Tremblett wrote: > > I've just been adding aliases to 127.0.0.1 for ad banner servers and it has been working well for me, but I'm just curious if I might reach a point where I break this. How many aliases can one IP address have? This is just a workstation which uses DNS for everything else, but will this still work once I have 200 aliases for one address? > AFAIK, you can have as many as you'd like. I've played around with it, and once had over a thousand aliases in there. Everything still worked fine for me. > > You may find this site interesting: http://smartin-designs.com/. He maintains a HUGE list of ad banner servers to block, and provides them in a zipped text file for you to download and use in your /etc/hosts file. > -- > Mike This sounds like a bad idea, a very extremist and nearly fascist notion. Why not use a browser *similar* to the latest Internet Explorer which allows you to block cookies from thirdparties (that would be, IPs other than the page being served up)? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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