Re: redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:39:15 -0500, Peter Fraser wrote: >On my windows machines, I use the hosts file >from "http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm"; >which removes a lot of junk from the internet. > >Rather than going to each machine an installing >this hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\

Re: redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/01/22 13:54, Nick Holland wrote: > > You'll need to use a web proxy for this. > > Just set up a "poisoned" DNS > resolver to mangle resolution of any domain or subdomain you don't want > people going to, which is what you are doing in a machine-by-m

Re: redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Joakim Aronius
Hi, I use DNS to solve this too. Got my list from http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ which can generate config files in a bunch if different formats. Works great. Cheers, /jkm * Nick Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2006/01/22 12:39, Peter Fraser wrote: > >> Rathe

Re: redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/01/22 12:39, Peter Fraser wrote: >> Rather than going to each machine an installing >> this hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc >> I would rather have my firewall block these >> names instead. >> >> Please note the blocking has to be done on the name, >> n

Re: redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/01/22 12:39, Peter Fraser wrote: > Rather than going to each machine an installing > this hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc > I would rather have my firewall block these > names instead. > > Please note the blocking has to be done on the name, > not the ip address. You'll need t

redirecting domain names

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Fraser
On my windows machines, I use the hosts file from "http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm"; which removes a lot of junk from the internet. Rather than going to each machine an installing this hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc I would rather have my firewall block these names instead.