Comments on: Test DNS Transfer with Windows Hosts File http://www.gabrielharper.com/2010/01/test-dns-transfer-with-windows-hosts-file/ Business, Web Sites and Life Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NANNYCAMS http://www.gabrielharper.com/2010/01/test-dns-transfer-with-windows-hosts-file/#comment-55312 NANNYCAMS Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:36:19 +0000 http://www.gabrielharper.com/?p=576#comment-55312 This is a good tip. I remember using this back in the day to stop advertising too. 127.0.0.1 www.advertising.com 127.0.0.1 www.annoying-adserver.net When one visits a web page it resolved the add to the local host so it never loads in the brower. It works with windows as long as the list is not that big. But today there are hundreds and thousands of advertisers. Still useful for stopping the most annoying ads for sure. This is a good tip.

I remember using this back in the day to stop advertising too.

127.0.0.1 http://www.advertising.com
127.0.0.1 http://www.annoying-adserver.net

When one visits a web page it resolved the add to the local host so it never loads in the brower.

It works with windows as long as the list is not that big. But today there are hundreds and thousands of advertisers. Still useful for stopping the most annoying ads for sure.

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