Re: Banner server avoidence

To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Banner server avoidence
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 18 Dec 2000 22:33:02 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 87zohtuj29.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>
In-reply-to: kmself@ix.netcom.com's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 18:58:37 -0800"
References: <[🔎] 3A3E96BF.F04389A3@spatial.freeserve.co.uk> <[🔎] 20001218185837.J11946@ix.netcom.com>

Lee Elliott writes:
> I saw this in a posting in an Amiga mailing list that I'm still
> subscribed to:
> 
> >The first place Genesis looks for anything is in db/hosts, and
> > if the ad-servers are listed there it will attempt to get the
> > banners from the address given there. Since there are none,
> > the banner command will simply fail.
> 
> and wondered if there was some way I could do something similar in
> Debian?

I just put ad servers in /etc/hosts with an IP of 127.0.0.1.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin

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