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Mun

Never Forget
At my work as of late I have been nulling Ad networks via DNS, and I was thinking of setting up one for everyone and I wanted to know your thoughts, concerns etc.

Basically I will take doubleclick.net and point is at 127.0.0.1 and other networks as well. 

Other possibilities is to null bad/spam/virus infected networks.

Thanks for feedback if any.
 
Pmadd

Pmadd

New Member
It's a neat idea, I won't mind seeing you impliment it, but as always there may be abuse (I'm not sure if/how you can abuse dns... As I'm still trying to figure it out.)
 
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Mun

Never Forget
Thanks for the feed back, we might add some mirrors, but lets first get it off the ground.
 
D. Strout

D. Strout

Resident IPv6 Proponent
Mun said:
Basically I will take doubleclick.net and point is at 127.0.0.1 and other networks as well.
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Where would you get your list of networks to redirect? And what would you redirect them to? Then there's the issue of trust - you could take Bankofamerica.com and point it somewhere nasty. Not that I'm saying you would, but it's something one has to consider.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
D. Strout said:
Where would you get your list of networks to redirect? And what would you redirect them to? Then there's the issue of trust - you could take Bankofamerica.com and point it somewhere nasty. Not that I'm saying you would, but it's something one has to consider.
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Correct, and that is always a point of contention that can happen. I mean google could as well. (theoretically)

The best way for that to not happen is to be open, to show problems, and three to setup a compare Web App.

(I would love to have vigil people and call me out if I did something that "Stupid")
 
drmike

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
I do exactly this for various projects, clients, etc.

Maintaining the lists and blocks is a problem and "false" positives.

Lots of unsavory companies are mixing real legitimate services with things that should be blocked on the same domain.   Google for instance comes to mind :)

There's a niche for this sort of thing certainly.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
acd said:
A quick google search says someone already does this...

http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/
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That is the host file and not a DNS server. A host file is great, but I think a Dns server might be better in certain cases

buffalooed said:
I do exactly this for various projects, clients, etc.

Maintaining the lists and blocks is a problem and "false" positives.

Lots of unsavory companies are mixing real legitimate services with things that should be blocked on the same domain.   Google for instance comes to mind :)

There's a niche for this sort of thing certainly.
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yeah.... I know :\

bcarlsonmedia said:
Keep a list of all the active bind records on a website possibly? Just throwing out ideas.
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We will. 

So all in all I have a few people liking it?

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drmike

drmike

100% Tier-1 Gogent
Sure, I like the idea and should be generally easy enough to do.

In addition to blocking ad networks, I highly advise the different but associated stuff like Google Analytics being blocked too.

My approach has been to inspect slow loading pages I frequent and pull apart the many requests and identify what things are.  Anything monitoring, behavioral, or related, I ban.
 
acd

acd

New Member
Edit: I determined this post does not add value to this thread and have blanked its contents. Instead, I suggest writing a script that converts hosts files to nameserver format for loading.
 
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M

Mun

Never Forget
Indeed there is already host files out there, but I don't really wish to fully use them as I don't know the context of the block.
 
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titanicsaled

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Great idea! You could use to block access to suspected nasty sites as well :)

Although forwarding to 127.0.0.1 could cause problems for people running their own webserver.
 
M

Mun

Never Forget
titanicsaled said:
Great idea! You could use to block access to suspected nasty sites as well :)

Although forwarding to 127.0.0.1 could cause problems for people running their own webserver.
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Yes, I was planning on doing nasty sites :D

Yeahh..... I wonder if there is a better address? 127.0.0.2?
 
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