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Here's a quick, dirty, temporary hack I threw together today. It's a script that manages entries in your hosts file (it can do things like merge, pull from web
by andrewcooke 16y ago
Here's a quick, dirty, temporary hack I threw together today. It's a script that manages entries in your hosts file (it can do things like merge, pull from web pages, etc).
https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet https://github.com/ghettonet/GhettoNet
Feel free to fork and improve.
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- andrewcooke 16y agoI just posted an update so that you can add and remove entries directly (instead of from a file). If anyone feels like testing it on something other than Linux any bug reports would be appreciated. But now I'm going to hit the sack...
- aw3c2 16y agoHow does the system like it if you actually have ~200 million entries in that file? Or make it just one million for a start.
- wazoox 16y agoI run dnsmasq (both a dns cache and a dns server) on all my machines. Works great.
- andrewcooke 16y agoSure, but sometimes worse is better - a small step in a pragmatic direction can do some good now and be a stepping stone to something better in the future.
- vog 16y agoThat still doesn't solve the core of the problem: How to ensure that the lists are trustworthy?
- andrewcooke 16y agoNo, it doesn't. But you're implying that a small step in the right direction is pointless because we have no idea how to engineer a complete solution. I don't agree - trust is a known, hard problem and the best solutions (think about ssh) are very pragmatic about it.
- fexl 16y agoThat's interesting. On "Info War Friday" I simply added this to my /etc/hosts file: 213.251.145.96 wikileaks.org DDos? What DDos? Although it's not the content of Wikileaks that interests me most, but the people who literally scream bloody murder about it.