Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com
On 1/4/22 10:19 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
And this is why putting stuff into /etc/hosts is basically never the
right answer. :)
Au contraire!
Among other things, the host table is the best possible place to block
access to certain unwanted domains. For example, if you add these entries:
> 0.0.0.0 facebook.com
> 0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
> 0.0.0.0 hi-in.facebook.com
> 0.0.0.0 gl-es.facebook.com
> 0.0.0.0 twitter.com
> 0.0.0.0 www.twitter.com
you can never be tricked into accessing Facebook or Twitter (for me,
ONCE is far too many times), and if you add
> 0.0.0.0 bing.com
then bing-redirections will fail every time (and alert you to their
noisome and all-too-common presence).
And likewise, you might want to access other machines within your LAN by
name, but your operation is not big enough to warrant bothering with an
internal DNS, or you might need to access outside systems that, for
various perfectly legitimate reasons, are kept off the public DNS.
--
JHHL
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