Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:28:54 -0500 From: Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com> To: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND Message-ID: <47752446.8090908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47744048.6020202@daleco.biz> References: <26ddd1750712271246j14795cf3wf8e9727f0f7cc148@mail.gmail.com> <47744048.6020202@daleco.biz>
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Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Just a question, and I'm not trying to cast doubt on your plan; I'm > curious why using BIND for this purpose instead of a proxy, which is > a more typical application as I understand it? I was trying to do something similar. I didn't research too hard, but figured the only way to use Bind would be to make my server authoritative for all those domains, which meant a huge config file and potential overhead, as well as possibly breaking access to desirable servers in the domains. So hosts seemed easier, but apparently Bind never looks at hosts. I did find that Squid (which I already had installed and in limited use) has its own DNS resolver, and it does look at hosts first before going to the nameserver. Then I found this site: http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html and put their list in hosts, and now client PCs get a squid error in place of ad junk. Works ok for me ;) -Rob
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