Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much

Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by mhurron on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:26AM (#5265052)

I run BIND at home for my network and take advantage of that to do the following: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Easy+DNS+BIND+Sinkhole+Setup/7930

I also have a webserver that any black holed domain is sent to so that there is no waiting for a web request to time out. The first time I put it in place I didn't have the webserver so the performance when hitting one of these was horrible. I also use it for any ad server or analytic site I want to permanently block.

This way I don't have to distribute and update a hosts file to every machine in the house and I control where the offending sites redirect too.

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Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by davidcollantes on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:40AM (#5265120)

Exactly this.

I have been creating master zones on my named.conf and pointing them to a blocked.txt file. My method is more cumbersome, the one you linked is very streamlined. Excellent, and thanks!

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Re:Using a Hosts File To Make The Internet Not Suck As Much by mhurron on Friday February 22, 2013 @12:05PM (#5265248)

I also made a little thing for adding additional zones to the list when I was playing a little with Bootstrap. I wrote a little page to add, enable and disable (if I blocked something important) entries. Then a cron job to pull the enabled domains, build the conf file and reload BIND.

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