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Whoa, such a simple and effective method by overriding the hosts file. Any idea how this file is kept up-to-date? Presumably new endpoints are constantly being
by itsmemattchung 10y ago
Whoa, such a simple and effective method by overriding the hosts file. Any idea how this file is kept up-to-date? Presumably new endpoints are constantly being rolled out; I wonder how the author of this file discovers the new hosts.
- satbyy 10y agoI've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
- schmich 10y agoA couple months ago I put together a Docker image for just this. It's based on dnsmasq and Steven Black's hosts list, and it automatically updates the list daily: https://github.com/schmich/purify https://github.com/schmich/purify I run it on a cheap Digital Ocean machine, and my home router is setup to forward all DNS traffic to it. Any connected clients, phones included, automatically get the blocking capability.
- johnpowell 10y agoYou can email them new stuff and they add it pretty quickly to the list. I have sent in about 20 domains that are mostly mackeeper related and they get added within a few days. The person that cares is really nice and seems to appreciate the help.