HOSTS file

[musher0]

FYI, there is a new mvps hosts file out, dated late March 2015.

[Scooby]

When trying to find out why my comp didn't block ads despite /etc/hosts
I came across this

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Python script to keep an updated hosts file

Tried it when hacking in "other data" dir also
and got

Success! Your shiny new hosts file has been prepared.
It contains 740574 unique entries

That is several entries, puh

seems like it's mixing 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 entries though

[Scooby]

Also blocking servers with hosts won't work with tor-browser

Tor does not use your local address resolving facilities because doing so would mean leaking the pages you request through Tor as DNS requests.

[mikeb]

Also blocking servers with hosts won't work with tor-browser

you can set the browser to not use tor for dns requests... not for the purists of course.

mike

[Scooby]

maybe better to use an ad-blocker addon but
that is also cited as a possible security hazard

Maybe not for the purists either?

[mikeb]

I am impure.....

[linuxcbon]

Tor browser is out of topic. (Just to answer, it doesnt use hosts, because it uses its own dns. And using adblock or addons with tor is not good, because you never know what infos they could send about your pc etc. I even have doubts that tor is secure.).

[s243a]

Tor browser is out of topic. (Just to answer, it doesnt use hosts, because it uses its own dns. And using adblock or addons with tor is not good, because you never know what infos they could send about your pc etc. I even have doubts that tor is secure.).

If you request a page from the World wide web then they do have dns addresses. If the page has an onion address, then I don't see why you couldn't block a site based on an onion address. Tor lets you connect to it via a proxy such as a vpn, perhaps one could put a proxy between the browser and tor that would do hostfile type blocking based on addresses. Furthermore, I don't see why one couldn't use the hostfile for this filtering.

[linuxcbon]

@s243a you dont see why ? then find it out. I wont explain, it's out of topic and you can search and learn.

[Scooby]

I don't agree. I think tor-browser regarding hosts file is on topic

Anyway as explained tor uses its own DNS solution because
its more anonymous that way.

another proxy seems complicated and since there is ad-blockers extensions
I would go this way

Guess I am not a purist either....

[mikeb]

We are dealing with an impure internet and software world...this will affect the tactics used.

mike

[musher0]

We are dealing with an impure internet and software world...this will affect the tactics used.

mike

Quite true, General.

[labbe5]

https://github.com/hoshsadiq/adblock-nocoin-list

This is an adblock list to block "browser-based crypto mining".

For the blocking based on the HOSTS file use the below link:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hoshs ... /hosts.txt

Ctrl+S to save.

[labbe5]

https://github.com/hectorm/hblock

This POSIX-compliant shell script, designed for Unix-like systems, gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file (alternative formats are also supported) that prevents your system from connecting to them.

Installation

curl -o /tmp/hblock 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hecto ... 1.3/hblock' \
&& echo '5aa752ceee6f4d10bdeab372ca557aefc3c7f32e4e10cceb4dddb3a86f6db4d3 /tmp/hblock' | shasum -c \
&& sudo mv /tmp/hblock /usr/local/bin/hblock \
&& sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/hblock \
&& sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/hblock

Usage

In your terminal : hblock

Result :

116888 blocked domains.

Optional :

You can use this Systemd timer to regularly update the hosts file for new additions :
https://github.com/hectorm/hblock/blob/ ... /README.md

The following commands will schedule a daily update of the hosts file :

curl -o '/tmp/hblock.#1' 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hecto ... vice,timer}' \
&& echo '70964235a03152d4bc68096a0b99cc59e3f77595b99330f8c55dcca79d7164ff /tmp/hblock.service' | shasum -c \
&& echo '79ecc28c13b2489400bd5ddc0ee61ddaf6c3225acb1d54b5cb4026f822ae60e8 /tmp/hblock.timer' | shasum -c \
&& sudo mv /tmp/hblock.{service,timer} /etc/systemd/system/ \
&& sudo chown root:root /etc/systemd/system/hblock.{service,timer} \
&& sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/hblock.{service,timer} \
&& sudo systemctl daemon-reload \
&& sudo systemctl enable hblock.timer \
&& sudo systemctl start hblock.timer

[musher0]

Yoo-hoo! Labbe5!

You again forgot that Puppy runs as root, so it does not need the sudo command
before another command.

As to systemctl... we don't have it.

Code: Select all

[~]>systemctl
bash: systemctl: command not found

BFN.

[s243a]

Yoo-hoo! Labbe5!

You again forgot that Puppy runs as root, so it does not need the sudo command
before another command.

As to systemctl... we con't have it.

Code: Select all

[~]>systemctl
bash: systemctl: command not found

BFN.

If all also fails kill the daemon and then restart it!

BTW, there is a completely unrelated command called sysctl. I always get this one mixed up with systemctl.