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  From: Nick Morrison <nickm@ior.org.au>
  To  : <nickm@ior.org.au>, <darylp@au1.ibm.com>, <nickm@ior.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:19:24 +0930

RE: Banner adverts cont.

hmmm  (replying to my own post...  heh)

I've made these changes, and squid still manages to find places like
www.microsoft.com that I've added as 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file.  Does
squid cache DNS searches?  I've restarted squid, in this hope..  but no
avail.

Pinging www.microsoft.com from the linux machine results in:

PING www.microsoft.com (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.2 ms

which is good.

But pinging from my windows machine, which is set to use the linux server as
it's DNS server, results in:

c:\windows>ping www.microsoft.com

Pinging microsoft.com [207.46.131.13] with 32 bytes of data:

etc etc etc

Which is annoying.

What have I screwed up?  Which services do I need to restart?  Do I need to
restart anything on the linux machine?

So near.. yet...

-
nick


--- www.microsoft.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.2/0.4/1.0 ms

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Morrison [mailto:nickm@ior.org.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 June 1999 9:55
> To: darylp@au1.ibm.com; linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> Subject: RE: Banner adverts cont.
>
>
> Just make sure you've got a
>
>    nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
> line in your /etc/resolv.conf
>
> then add the appropriate lines to /etc/hosts
>
> then make sure your /etc/nsswitch.conf file contains the line
>
>    hosts:      files nisplus nis dns
>
> to set the order it checks hostnames in..
>
> If you've got the DNS server running, all should be well.
>
> Try by pinging www.microsoft.com, which you of course added as
> 127.0.0.1 ;)
>
> If I'm wrong, let me know :)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: darylp@au1.ibm.com [mailto:darylp@au1.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 30 June 1999 9:35
> > To: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
> > Subject: Re: Banner adverts cont.
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Under OS/2 in config.sys you need to set the parameter:
> > SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
> > So you PC looks at the name / IP address in the hosts file 1st.
> > Those annoying banner sites are listed as 127.0.0.1 & are made
> null & void
> > :)
> >
> > Perhaps somebody can tell us what the command / config is under Linux?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Daryl Pilkington
> > IBM Certified System Expert:- OS/2 Warp Server
> >
> > 2nd Level Server Support
> > IBM Global Services Australia
> >
> > Group Tel: +61-2-9354-7150  Direct: Tel: +61-2-9354-4205  Mobile:
> > +61-414-327-957  Email: darylp@au1.ibm.com
> >
> >
> >
> > linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au on 29-06-99 17:23:50
> >
> > To:   "Shaun" <ether@chariot.net.au>, LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
> > cc:    (bcc: Daryl Pilkington/Australia/Contr/IBM)
> > Subject:  Re: Banner adverts cont.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I think that /etc/hosts should do the same thing form you. Not
> 100% sure,
> > but am sure that someone here will let me know if I gave you bad info.
> >
> > Rob.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shaun <ether@chariot.net.au>
> > To: LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
> > Date: Tuesday, 29 June 1999 3:46 PM
> > Subject: Banner adverts cont.
> >
> >
> > >hello all,
> > >
> > >when in windows i use a hosts file to stop banner
,( 
> \windows\hosts )
> > >it looks like this;
> > >
> > >-----------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------
> > -
> > ------------------
> > >
> > >127.0.0.1       image.excite.com                # no ads from excite
> > >127.0.0.1       image.eimg.com                  # used by webcrawler...
> > >127.0.0.1       adforce.imgis.com               # used by mamma
> > >127.0.0.1       promotions.yahoo.com        # yahoo...
> > >127.0.0.1       ads.lycos.com                   # lycos, whowhere
> > >127.0.0.1       ad.doubleclick.net              # altavista
> > >
> > >etc...
> > >
> > >----------------------------------------
-------------------------
> > ---------
> > -
> > ---------------------
> > >
> > >how can i do this in linux?
> > >
> > >
> > >if anyone wants to use/view the hosts file,
> > >www.chariot.net.au/~ether/hosts
> > >
> > >
> > >thanks.
> > > Shaun
> > >
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