Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name : dnscruft Version : 0.20060508-1 * URL : file://home/kilobyte/dnscruft/ Initial packages : http://angband.pl/debian/dnscruft/ Apt : deb[-src] http://angband.pl/debian unstable main * License : GPL Description : feeds Bind a list of domains as useful as doubleclick.com or less Adverts are an atrocity that plagues "teh Intarweb"; in a typical ISP scenario you can expect even up to 1/3 of all http requests to carry annoyances instead of useful traffic. Moreover, such requests are usually not-cacheable. . This package can seed up your DNS server with either prepackaged lists of domains or your own selection; it may be used to fight ads/crapware or to help enforce your policy against any list of sites you have a database of. . For the purpose of blocking ads you may want to also look at an alternate means like FireFox+Adblock for personal use or Squid+Adzapper for your users -- these means grant a more fine-grained control. On the other hand, dnscruft uses far less resources and blocks a much greater range of win32 malware, browser hijackers, drive-by-downloads, traffic analysis spies or fine products of Russian newest phisheries. And, no one says you can't use both dnscruft and URL-based controls. Annoyed by the amount of crap, I've taken my personal block lists (gathered over a few years) and combined them with a number of publicly available ones. However, the lists I found all contain quite a lot of false positives -- domains which contain not only cruft but also some (questionably) redeeming values. Popular items include for example rackspace.com (Fanatical Ads(tm)), eads.com (aeronautics), astalavista.box.sk (a search engine for cracks/serials) or even myspace.com (THE bane of good taste/reason). Thus, such existing lists may be used as-is only on personal/company networks. To make them useful, I've included only entries I've checked by hand. As checking >120000 hosts would be an inhuman task, I covered only those with most incidence on the source lists and/or in Squid logs of two ISPs which are ahead of others in my quest for world domination. Thus, I believe a good percentage of current scum will be blocked with very few false positives. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
