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Re: [opensuse] Re: Chromium - What information is collected with 'spdy'? Why doubleclick.net??
David C. Rankin said the following on 01/05/2012 12:54 PM:
On 01/05/2012 04:30 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
How quaint :) I used to have a lot of lines in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

Hehe! I hadn't thought of doing it that way, but that is pretty darn slick!

[11:52 phoenix:/etc/postfix] # ping doubleclick.net
PING phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms
64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms
^C

Old dog - new trick!

Actually its a bit lame.
If the page you are viewing references a site you want nulled out, and
advert you don't wish to see, then its going to try
"http://127.9.9.1/whatever"; and since you don't have server there
dishing out a null page you browser is gong to wait ... and wait ...
and wait .. and time out.

A good way to kill your browser's performance.

What you want is something that listens on port 80, perhaps using the
XINET daemon and then invokes a shell script that merely uses 'echo' to
respond

<html><head></head><body></body></html>


Big deal, eh?
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