Hi Owen! Why don't you use junkbuster as filtering proxy? There you'll have a blockfile that works with regular expressions (ad*.*.* for example): dpkg -s junkbuster: Package: junkbuster Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org> Version: 2.0.2-0.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), dpkg (>= 1.4.1.17), logrotate Description: The Internet Junkbuster! Junkbuster is an instrumentable proxy that filters the HTTP stream between web servers and browsers. It can prevent ads and other unwanted junk from appearing in your web browser. MH > Interested in hearing different strategies for blocking ads. Presently I > use a mixture of input-chain firewall rules and redirection in my > /etc/hosts file. > > Since I'm running DNS for my LAN, is there a way to set it up to block ads? > > Also, there's one ad system I haven't figured out how to block: I've seen > many ads that have URLs "ads.admonitor.net" but nslookup claims this is a > nonexiststant host/network, so I can't add it to my firewalling rules. Any > ideas? > > Thanks much! > > oge > > ----- > Owen G. Emry > Custom Palm OS development services > oemry@patriot.net > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- (Dr.) Michael Hummel mailto: mh@seitung.net molino@gmx.net -- fprint = F24D EAC6 E3D7 372C 9122 D510 EB24 01CA 0B56 B518 key: http://www.seitung.net/key
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