Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addresses

Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by vive-la-liberte on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:28AM (#10580214)

But having the entries in /etc/hosts should on Unix in most cases cause your computer to find it there right away without DNS lookup. Are you using dnsmasq locally on the host computer or to serve other computers as well? In the latter case, I see the point (though if I were to use dnsmasq I wouldn't intermix the hosts file).

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Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by laumars on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:33AM (#10580418)

There wouldn't be any point running dnsmasq only for a local machine :)

RE intermixing hosts file: dnsmasq supports reading from additional hosts files other than /etc/hosts (thank to creshal for that suggestion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10580082)

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Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by dylanh on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:08AM (#10581087)

I run dnsmasq locally (and silently redirect all traffic from a certain uid with an iptables rule) to do adblocking and ... minimal parental control on my son's laptop. it is pretty great, I don't have to worry about him using the neighbor's wifi to get around my rules. ;)

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Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by jakeogh on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:16PM (#10583657)

Another benefit is it caches DNS lookups.

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Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by ausjke on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:45PM (#10583826)

is this on a PC or a router?

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Re:Adsuck – a small DNS server that spoofs blacklisted addre... by dylanh on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @04:59PM (#10584297)

On a laptop. Otherwise I wouldn't know the uid. All users (including services) are allowed outgoing port 53/udp, except my son's user.

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