[SpamCop-List] Re: Blocking a notorius spam-friendly domain with my Hosts file

[Michael Wise]

In article <Xns963DA3E68108Eblammo at 216.154.195.61>,
 Blammo <nttp.sc.s at bigsleep.org> wrote:

> >> In reply to my wailing about esomniture.com, Brian (SnSR) wrote:
> >> 
> >> > try 127.0.0.1  stats.esomniture.com in your hosts file
> >> 
> >> Sigh.  I tried that, but to no avail.
> > 
> > That's because a hosts file is for outbound connections; not inbound 
> > ones.
> > 
> 
> Uhm, these are outgoing connections.


My mistake. I assumed since SC and its forums are about email spam, that 
that was what was being talked about.


> The hosts file don't accept wild 
> cards, not that I'm aware of anyway.


No it doesn't. If one desires that level of blocking, they need to set 
up their own dns server (which they then have their gear use for 
look-ups), create a zone file for esomniture.com (as an example), and 
then have some blocking fun.




--Mike