Yeah, personally I think it's a cool way of doing web content filtering, better than rule based url matching and all that. Yang -----Original Message----- From: Robin Laing [mailto:Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:45 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: How to block Kazaa; NIS authentication Yang Xiao wrote: > Hi, > It's a funny way of doing it, but here it is. > Assuming you have control of the DNS server your users are using, usually > obtained by DHCP, you can setup an empty authoritative zone for kazaa.com so > that it resolves to nothing, done, won't even bother your firewall. > Yang > This reminds me of a site that tells people to modify their hosts and HOSTS files on linux/windows boxes for all the different cookie/advertising sites as well. Blocking access to all the tracking and downloads for advertising. Saves on bandwidth as well as speeds up browsing. Mike Skallas' Ad Blocking Hosts file http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html I haven't tried it yet. -- Robin Laing -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
