[NTLUG:Discuss] Web page advertisers causing browser freeze

[Alton Pouncey]

It's the order that name lookups are done.  When you go to a site, I 
think the /etc/hosts file is the 1st or 2nd thing referenced in the order 
of name lookups.  So, if you set the domain to 127.0.0.1 in your 
/etc/hosts file, the page should load faster and you will get 404 Error 
messages on the page where the ads normally show up (but the rest of the 
page will load normally).

I think there was an article in last month's Sys Admin magazine on 
setting this up in BIND.

Alton R. Pouncey, II
SCSA, SCNA, CCNA, CIW Professional
Assisting home users with Linux and wireless since 2000.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Wayne Dahl wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:17, Rev. wRy wrote:
> 
> > You could always modify your hosts file to have media.fastclick.net and
> > media.fastclick.com point back to 127.0.0.1 .
> > 
> > Ry
> 
> What does pointing the domain to the localhost do?  Would adding
> media.fastclick.net to the hosts.deny have the desired affect?
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
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