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On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:04:56AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: > I've had good results using The Proxomitron ad-blocker on my windoze box, > and would like to get an equivalent filter for Linux. > > Please pass along your opinions about how I can best eliminate pop-ups, > animated GIF's, etc. All suggestions welcome. Mozilla allows to disable javascript from opening unrequested windows. As for animated gifs, one solution is to use a caching dns server setup to send dns queries for the domains hosting the ads into the abyss. Two steps: (1) configure your dns server to be authoritative for the domains, (2) configure your resolv.conf to use localhost for name lookups. If you're using a dhcp client to set resolv.conf, you'll likely need to edit the client's config to manually override the nameserver setting. I have a named.conf based on debian stable's bind9 config at home that looks like so: acl "homenets" { 172.16.0.0/16; 172.17.0.0/16; 127.0.0.1/32; }; options { allow-query { "homenets"; }; directory "/var/cache/bind"; auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035 }; // prime the server with knowledge of the root servers zone "." { type hint; file "/etc/bind/db.root"; }; // be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for // broadcast zones as per RFC 1912 zone "localhost" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; zone "127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.127"; }; zone "0.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.0"; }; zone "255.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.255"; }; // dns blackhole. db.local says nothing about these domains, so name // queries simply evaporate. zone "atwola.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; zone "doubleclick.com" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; zone "doubleclick.net" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.local"; }; etc. -- Ron Peterson -o) 87 Taylor Street /\\ Granby, MA 01033 _\_v https://www.yellowbank.com/ ----
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