On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:08PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:

| On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Chris  wrote:

| > Most of the entries of my /etc/hosts file actually come from

| > http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm - it basically blackholes

| > unwanted sites. Is there any way I can get around the upgrade issue

| > without having to remove entries from my /etc/hosts file? Thanks.

|

| adblock in the browser is far more flexible, faster, and just plain

| works better.  If you really feel that giant lists of banned addresses

| are the way to go, run a nameserver and do it there.
Which gives you the added benefit of being able to "share" these

results with other computers in your network by configuring them to

use said nameserver. Saves you from distributing this hosts file to a

couple of machines.
(I second Ted on the suggestion to use adblockers in your browser

though).
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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