Comments on: Using BIND to reduce ad server content http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/ Blog O' Matty Fri, 04 May 2012 19:58:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: blackzero http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-830099 blackzero Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:14:24 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-830099 I made a bash script which does almost the same thing. Here's my script ... http://blackzero.highfsb.com/?p=1461 And here's how I configured Apache to handle missing pages and banners http://blackzero.highfsb.com/?p=774 I made a bash script which does almost the same thing.

Here’s my script …
http://blackzero.highfsb.com/?p=1461

And here’s how I configured Apache to handle missing pages and banners
http://blackzero.highfsb.com/?p=774

]]> By: Matt http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-59000 Matt Wed, 30 May 2007 12:09:54 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-59000 Awesome docs, btw. Here is a tip for something that I implemented. Instead of redirecting traffic to 127.0.0.1, setup a web server that simply hosts 'Blocked' as the page. This keeps the web browser from trying multiple times to connect to a non-existent server and makes the pages look a little more clean if there are multiple ads on one site. In my case, ads get redirected to another internal address on a virtual apache server. Additionally, this helps my wife who is not computer savy. If she is trying to visit a 'bad' site that I have auto-blocked, she will get the standard 'Blocked' message instead of a browser error page. She then knows not to bother me about a page that won't load because the browser appears to be 'broken'. Awesome docs, btw.

Here is a tip for something that I implemented. Instead of redirecting traffic to 127.0.0.1, setup a web server that simply hosts ‘Blocked’ as the page. This keeps the web browser from trying multiple times to connect to a non-existent server and makes the pages look a little more clean if there are multiple ads on one site. In my case, ads get redirected to another internal address on a virtual apache server.

Additionally, this helps my wife who is not computer savy. If she is trying to visit a ‘bad’ site that I have auto-blocked, she will get the standard ‘Blocked’ message instead of a browser error page. She then knows not to bother me about a page that won’t load because the browser appears to be ‘broken’.

]]> By: Kimmo http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-22865 Kimmo Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:09:27 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-22865 Just set up Privoxy on some host on your network, make it listen on the appropriate IP and port 8080 (or its standard 8118, whichever) and then just use it as a normal HTTP proxy in the web browser. Cuts virtually every ad and tons of other nasty webbugs, javascripts, etc etc. I have it installed on my workstation and use it just for myself, which is also a possibility (there are win32 binaries with an installer no less, totally simple to take into use.) No need to tinker with esoteric DNS settings when there is software out there that does it much better and is specialized to the task. It's at www.privoxy.org and there are binaries for many OS's and of course source for compilation. To further tighten up ad filtering, visit www.neilvandyke.org/privoxy-rules/ and add that actions file as well; optional but quite useful. Just set up Privoxy on some host on your network, make it listen on the appropriate IP and port 8080 (or its standard 8118, whichever) and then just use it as a normal HTTP proxy in the web browser.

Cuts virtually every ad and tons of other nasty webbugs, javascripts, etc etc.

I have it installed on my workstation and use it just for myself, which is also a possibility (there are win32 binaries with an installer no less, totally simple to take into use.) No need to tinker with esoteric DNS settings when there is software out there that does it much better and is specialized to the task.

It’s at http://www.privoxy.org and there are binaries for many OS’s and of course source for compilation.

To further tighten up ad filtering, visit http://www.neilvandyke.org/privoxy-rules/ and add that actions file as well; optional but quite useful.

]]> By: Peter Lowe http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-19714 Peter Lowe Mon, 29 May 2006 04:21:02 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-19714 A lot of people miss it for some reason - I'll have to redesign the site one of these days, it's too messy to find anything. Anyway, I'm glad you found it useful! cheers, - Peter A lot of people miss it for some reason – I’ll have to redesign the site one of these days, it’s too messy to find anything. Anyway, I’m glad you found it useful!

cheers,

– Peter

]]> By: Matty http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-19533 Matty Sun, 28 May 2006 18:28:06 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-19533 Hi Peter, Your site has so much cool information, I must have missed the link to the named.conf generator. Since I want to generate a complete named.conf given a base config, I plan to continue using the Perl script to ease my life. Thanks for the awesome work! - Ryan Hi Peter,

Your site has so much cool information, I must have missed the link to the named.conf generator. Since I want to generate a complete named.conf given a base config, I plan to continue using the Perl script to ease my life. Thanks for the awesome work!

- Ryan

]]> By: Peter Lowe http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/05/27/using-bind-to-reduce-ad-server-content/comment-page-1/#comment-19497 Peter Lowe Sun, 28 May 2006 11:54:40 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=433#comment-19497 Uhm, dude. Nice script and all, but it's already possible to view the list as an include file for your BIND config: - http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bindconfig cheers, Peter Uhm, dude. Nice script and all, but it’s already possible to view the list as an include file for your BIND config:

– http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bindconfig

cheers,

Peter

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