Hosts file info for SDF

[Leo J Mauler]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:12:35 -0600 Leo J Mauler <webgiant at juno.com>
writes:
> 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):

I'm sorry, the /etc/hosts file (or C:WINDOWSHosts) should be 

IP address   Domain Name

Instead of:

> ol.freeshell.org     192.94.73.20
> freeshell.org     192.94.73.30
> webgiant.sdf1.org     192.94.73.2
use:

192.94.73.20     ol.freeshell.org     
192.94.73.30     freeshell.org
192.94.73.2     webgiant.sdf1.org     
              
> 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.

I use a free fax service called EFax.com.  It allows me to receive faxes
as email attachments.  They also spam people, so you'll have to go into
the Hosts file and comment out the line for www.efax.com if you want to
use this service too.

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