Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:26:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: Mike Irwin <mdi@foobox.com>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: ad banner hack Message-ID: <20020327172601.A84851@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020327024127.U56651-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:43:24AM -0500 References: <20020326222702.C11556@foo.bar> <20020327024127.U56651-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 02:43:24AM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > 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? Sorry for not replying to the original message, but I seem to have deleted it. Dunno if there's a hard limit, but you might start to run into scaling problems with some things if you go too high (i.e. it will still work but become slower). > > 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. Yes, it's probably much better to use /etc/hosts than ifconfig aliases. Alternatively, use a banner ad filtering program like adzap or junkbuster (both in ports), or mozilla which lets you selectively block images from a site. Kris --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8onEpWry0BWjoQKURAiKWAJ4sHrLWAEbxoxm9xl6PdMQvIYG/pwCgis1T t5HKWQrokFsTVi/b0EK6uRY= =kmwr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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