[ILUG] linux Flash, and single-threaded sound

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Kae Verens (kverens at webworks.ie):

> an easy solution to most ad problems:
> http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

Couldn't hurt.  Of course, there are entire DNS domains you can
make vanish, too, _if_ you administer your own nameserver:  Mine proclaims
itself authoritative for a bunch of advertising domains -- thereby
also automatically taking care of all of their subdomains at the same
time.  (See below.)  Rather than having to continually add new
[foo].doubleclick.net lines -- the problem with the
http://everythingisnt.com/hosts approach, they're just all gone.

I don't bother to create the zonefiles, so those advertising URLs 404
against the local httpd -- but creative possibilities beckon.

What neither approach deals with are ad sites hyperlinked to by IP
address rather than hostname.  For that, you need proxying or netfilter
rulesets.

(excerpt from /etc/bind/named.conf.local:]


//Domains Killed Dirt Cheap:

//"ad-up.com" does Internet advertising and sells lists of e-mail addresses.
zone "ad-up.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/ad-up.com.zone";
};

//"adbot.com" does Internet advertising.
zone "adbot.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/adbot.com.zone";
};

//"adsmart.com" does Internet advertising.
zone "adsmart.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/adsmart.com.zone";
};

//"atlas.cz" is a Czech advertiser.
zone "atlas.cz" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/atlas.cz.zone";
};

//"blm.net" is an Internet advertiser.
zone "blm.net" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/blm.net.zone";
};

//"criticalmass.com" is an Internet advertiser.
zone "criticalmass.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/criticalmass.com.zone";
};

//"dogpile.com" is an additional Internet ad domain run by infospace.com.
zone "dogpile.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/dogpile.com.zone";
};

//doubleclick.net must die
zone "doubleclick.net" {
	type master;
	allow-query { any; };
	file "/etc/bind/doubleclick.net.zone";
};

//"focalink.com" is an Internet advertiser.
zone "focalink.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/focalink.com.zone";
};

//"infospace.com" appears to serve up ads from ads.infospace.com.
zone "infospace.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/infospace.com.zone";
};

//"linkexchange.com" are just plain sleazemeisters.
zone "linkexchange.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/linkexchange.com.zone";
};

//"netservice.de" is a German-language Internet advertiser.
zone "netservice.de" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/netservice.de.zone";
};


//"preferences.com" appears to serve up ads from ads.preferences.com.
zone "preferences.com" {
        type master;
	allow-query { any; };
	file "/etc/bind/preferences.com.zone";
};


//"remoteapproach.com" collects spy-on-users data from Acrobat 7.x and later.
zone "remoteapproach.com" {
	type master;
	allow-query { any; };
	file "/etc/bind/remoteapproach.com.zone";
};

//"riddler.com" advertise from various subdomains.
zone "riddler.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/riddler.com.zone";
};


//"valueclick.com" serves up ads from oz.valueclick.com.
zone "valueclick.com" {
        type master;
        allow-query { any; };
        file "/etc/bind/valueclick.com.zone";
};


//yimg.com must die, too.
zone "yimg.com" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/yimg.com.zone";
};