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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
