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

[Blammo]

On 19 Apr 2005 Michael Wise entered spamcop and left news:no-
3D8B20.17184619042005 at news.cesmail.net:

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

I think you can do this with the XP Internet Firewall, or was that in the 
Internet Security/Privacy zone. Or other firewalls should allow wildcard 
domains.
With *NIX it's built-in. You can add zones to named.conf which point to the 
same "dummy" DNS file, which can contain the "*" subdomain.
But the easiest way is probably to use the AdBlock features of Opera, 
Mozilla or Firefox. Especially since the other methods won't block IPs or 
directories. Also, since the requested file won't exist on 127.0.0.1, the 
browser will have to "time out" which can slow down page rendering.

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