Re: firefox > Preferences > When Firefox starts.
On 4/24/19, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> [I presume that replying only to me was a mistake.]
Nope, responding to your "my /etc/hosts file has ~14000 lines" didn't
seem all that germane to the thread. & not that this is either, but
if you'd prefer to keep it on the list I don't mind.
> On Tue 23 Apr 2019 at 10:38:41 (-0400), Lee wrote:
>> On 4/22/19, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On Sun 21 Apr 2019 at 20:30:53 (-0700), peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>> >> From: David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
>> >> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:13:11 -0500
>> >> > Does the behaviour reported in your OP cause you *great* concern?
>> >>
>> >> No. Just wastes time. Opening a simple local HTML home page requires
>> >> roughly a minute rather than roughly a second.
>> >
>> > I tend to forget that, because my /etc/hosts file has ~14000 lines,
>> > pages appear a lot faster here.
>>
>> Have you looked at bind's dns rpz?
>
> Just now.
>
>> http://zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/rpz.html
>> It lets you do things like
>> *.2o7.net CNAME .
>> *.doubleclick.net CNAME .
>>
>> to block entire domains instead of having to list each and every
>> hostname in the domain.
>>
>> And you can log what is blocked/allowed to make troubleshooting easier
>
> It might be a good *mechanism* for the diversion itself, but AFAICT
> it's aimed at the *policy* implementers rather than the end-user.
Just out of curiosity - do you think pi-hole is aimed at policy
implementers or end users?
> The value I get from Dan Pollock is the list of sites rather than the
> most elegant mechanism for handling that list. Looking at the comments
> in the list, and by comparing evolving versions, it does appear that
> Dan actively "opens holes" where people report interference or
> difficulties using certain legitimate sites.
>
> Finally, I wouldn't know where to start to compile a list of sites
> like that.
https://dnsrpz.info/
If you're a business, you can buy access to an rpz feed.
If you're a [home?] network admin it's simple enough to enable logging
& see what all is allowed that you'd rather have blocked. And/or grab
things like Dan Pollock's list and turn them into an rpz file. I just
don't like the size & the churn in curated host files - I'd rather
have a single line
*.advertisingdomain.tld
and have them all blocked vs. the maybe hundreds of lines blocking
each specific host.
Regards,
Lee
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