on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:33:02PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lee Elliott writes: > > I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still > > subscribed to: > > > > >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and > > > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the > > > banners from the address given there. Since there are none, > > > the banner command will simply fail. > > > > and wondered if there was some way I could do something similar in > > Debian? > > I just put ad servers in /etc/hosts with an IP of 127.0.0.1.
See my post. I believe this is an acceptable solution. It may incur a timeout. However, the solution doesn't scale to multiple servers. By blocking at the DNS level, ***ALLL*** systems in a network are effectively blocked from the rogue sites. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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