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from: Jim Wilson
date: 2003-02-13 08:15:14
subject: [TSEPro] Re: Using TSE to speed up your browser, block ads, and avo

From: Jim Wilson 
@Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:45:15 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



At 12:47 PM 2/12/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>All it takes for this to work are entries like the following
>added to the "hosts" file:
>
>127.0.0.1   bfast.com
>127.0.0.1   countyou.de
>127.0.0.1   doubleclick.com
>127.0.0.1   doubleclick.net
>
>Such entries redirect DNS requests from the sites listed to
>your own machine, which has the IP address 127.0.0.1.  Unless

This is an interesting concept -- I might give it a whirl.

BTW; 127.0.0.1 is called "local loopback", and is present for every TCP/IP 
networking stack, so it should work for everyone who's got network drivers 
loaded.

Regards,
Jim

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