Hosts file info for SDF

[Leo J Mauler]

If you're having problems with loading my webpage with SDF, its because
of wildcarding at Network Solutions (the bastards).

Add these lines to your /etc/hosts (folks still using Windows create a
plain text file called "Hosts" in C:WINDOWS with these lines in it):

ol.freeshell.org     192.94.73.20
freeshell.org     192.94.73.30
webgiant.sdf1.org     192.94.73.2
             
Everything should load fine after this.

Incidentally, there is a fine service being provided using a trick with
the Hosts file.  Seems modern browsers look first in the local Hosts
file, then go to the ISP if the local Hosts file does not contain the
address they are looking for.  If the local Hosts file does contain the
address they are looking for, they don't look in the ISP if they can't
find the page from the local Hosts file.

And this means that if you redirect, say, ads.doubleclick.net, to
127.0.0.1 in your local Hosts file, any pop-ups or banner ads that
normally load from ads.doubleclick.net, *won't load at all*.  Your
computer won't even waste the bandwidth traditional popup stoppers use
since your computer won't download the popup window prior to closing it.

http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/ has a rather large (720K) Hosts file which
has thousands of popup and banner ad sites listed as 

ads-site.entry.com     127.0.0.1

Which means that if you stick this Hosts file into /etc/hosts (or into
C:WINDOWS) thousands of banner ads won't show up on your browser pages,
and your computer won't waste your bandwidth loading popup windows, even
if you do have a popup stopper.  It will look for a *local* copy of the
banner ad or popup, and when it doesn't find the banner ad or popup, it
displays a broken image link for the banner ad, and fails to display the
popup at all.

Some websites you may browse frequently have caught on to the existence
of this Hosts file, and as such some of their regular page artwork is
stored on their ad banner URLs.  Yahoo is the only place I've been to
that does this.  You will need to take out some of the Yahoo Hosts file
entries in order to use Yahoo to the fullest, but even with some of the
Yahoo entries removed, it still blocks most Yahoo banner ads and popups.

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