On 2019-02-01, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
Get a PiHole.
<https://pi-hole.net/>
Is that better than a hosts file such as is offered by MVPS? <https://mvpshostsnews.blogspot.com>
I find it works well, is easy to set up and needs no extra hardware.
I'll let you know definitively soon, since my PiHole hardware arrived
a couple of days ago, and I already run a fairly large hosts file (incorporating the MVPS one), presently [tap, tap, tap] some 18,000
hosts. The PiHole one is larger and it has the ability to blackhole
entire domains, without having to add individual machines, saving
pain like having to add;
0.0.0.0 a.spammingfucks.com
0.0.0.0 b.spammingfucks.com
0.0.0.0 c.spammingfucks.com
0.0.0.0 d.spammingfucks.com
0.0.0.0 e.spammingfucks.com
And so on. Also, the PiHoles lists are automatically updated, saving
me having to do it.
Sysop: | DaiTengu |
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Location: | Appleton, WI |
Users: | 910 |
Nodes: | 10 (1 / 9) |
Uptime: | 126:37:11 |
Calls: | 12,131 |
Calls today: | 5 |
Files: | 186,512 |
Messages: | 2,230,337 |