blocking Popups with Bind

James A Griffin agriffin at cpcug.org
Wed Sep 19 20:22:43 UTC 2001


Joe Kattner wrote:
> 
> No, I still don't think this is a good solution. Barry suggested ad blocking
> software. Now that it's only two clients it should be relatively painless to
> install blocking software. Much easier, and you won't have problems later,
> when you start wondering why a lot of things don't resolve properly.
> Remember, by providing false DNS data you are not just blocking popups, but
> all name resolution for those domains regardless of service.
> 
I agree with both of Joe's posts.  Use junkbusters to block ads, control
cookies, send wafers (if you wish) and control other activity.  It is
free and comes with good documentation.  Runs on Un*x and Windows (RPMs
available).  Visit http://www.junkbusters.com/ijb.html.

> If you still want to stop them by introducing bogus data into your DNS
> server yes, it will work the same way that the single entry you first posted
> will stop resolution for www.doubleclick.com.
> 
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