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Blocking a URL



Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Every once in a while I get a new Firefox window, primarily
> content.pulse360.com. I have tried to use adblock to block this URL
> explicitly (*.pulse360.com). It's just annoying. dig pulse360.com
> I certainly could block the IP address in my firewall, but I want to be
> able to block the alpha URL if they are using rotating IP addresses.

You can put an entry in /etc/hosts to point that hostname to 127.0.0.1,
which at least will block access to the server.






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