Awesome solution. Thank you for helping to improve the world! ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 10:05:27 AM > Subject: Re: security in firefox4 > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The internet works better in my experience when > > www.google-analytics.com > > (and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked at firewall level or stuck > > in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 > > I do something similar with my DNS server. I have a dead zone file, > which produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I > associate it with. It gives me neat, central, management of all > computers on the LAN. My named.conf file also has these other > google-related domains: > > zone "googlesyndication.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; > zone "googleservices.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; > zone "googleadservices.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; > zone "google-analytics.com" { type master; file "dead.zone"; }; > > And this is the dead.zone file: > > $TTL 86400 > @ IN SOA ns.localdomain. hostmaster.mail.localdomain. ( > 200 ; serial > 28800 ; refresh > 7200 ; retry > 604800 ; expire > 86400 ; ttl > ) > > > IN NS ns.localdomain. > > Essentially, it's a wildcard "no answer" for the domain, and any > subdomain. > > -- > [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r > 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I > read messages from the public lists. > > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines