[NTLUG:Discuss] Web page advertisers causing browser freeze

[Victor Brilon]

An even better solution is to install Privoxy:
http://www.privoxy.org

Alton Pouncey wrote:
> 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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