Bug#366482: ITP: dnscruft -- feeds Bind a list of domains as useful as doubleclick.com or less
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl>
* 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.
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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.
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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)
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