On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:58:05 +0100 Chris G <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > I run a fairly default version of dnsmasq on my xubuntu 9.04 Linux box > so that I don't have to maintain losts of network (or hosts) > configurations around our network. > > I have just added:- > > 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com > ssl.www.google-analytics.com > > to my /etc/hosts file. I'm not paranoid about snooping but I am fed > up with having to wait for www.google-analytics.com to respond, it's > often quite slow taking several seconds with the address displayed at > the bottom of Firefox. >
Have you considered using address= in the configuration file? I have a short list of addresses I poison in that way, and some time ago (2-3 months?) on this list someone included instructions on an automatically updating list + apache rewrite to avoid nasty messages. Fraid I can't find the message right now though :( kk > So, it appears to work, but why does 'host' respond as follows:- > > chris$ host www.google-analytics.com > www.google-analytics.com has address 127.0.0.1 > www.google-analytics.com is an alias for > www-google-analytics.l.google.com. www.google-analytics.com is an > alias for www-google-analytics.l.google.com. > > Why don't the aliases disappear as well? > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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