Anno domini 2020 Mon, 31 Aug 09:33:33 +0200
 Stefan Krusche scripsit:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> Am Montag 31 August 2020 schrieb William Morder via trinity-users:
> > I do know that I see a big difference between using a customized
> > hosts file instead of (only) depending on ad-blockers. As soon as I
> > overwrite the hosts file with my list, I find that my system is more
> > stable. It's not only the ads that get blocked, it seems, but also
> > other unwanted connections.
> 
> Sure, that's what I want as well :-)  I'm using a huge /etc/hosts as
> well, but only with 0.0.0.0 so all requests from unwanted domains get
> send to nowhere without my system (localhost) trying to serve them
> before.
> 
> The purpose of using 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, AIUI, is to make the web
> server on localhost show some substitute page/image/whatever to
> indicate something has been blocked.  If you don't have a web server
> running on localhost and configured to serve such requests it doesn't
> make sense to put 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts to my understanding.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Kind regards,
> Stefan

I had a blacklist in /etc/hists some time ago, too - autogerated, always fresh from the net. One could argue if that was a good ide. Anyways this is the sniplet from rc.local:

	# HOSTS-Datei mit Adblocker :-)
	(
	sleep 5m
	cat > /etc/hosts << XXX
	# insert your hostname here
	127.0.0.1   localhost t61

	# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
	::1    localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
	ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
	ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
	XXX

	wget http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt -O - 2>/dev/null | grep ^0.0.0.0 >> /etc/hosts
	) &

But some time ago my old firewall died. I replaced it with a RPi1+OpenWRT. There's a package for openwrt that does basicly the same thing (as does pihole - which I was inclied to use earlier ut turned out to be mostly marketing blablabla). I cannot say if these DNS based nirvanas are any good. But together with uMatrix and uBlockOrigin it does a decent good job.

Nik


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