Sanity check please: Given iplist in place, getting a blacklist into hosts is … not useful?
(If I could even figure out how to automate that downloading.)
iplist is just going to stay Mum on any request to a blocked site, right? (Even better if it comes back immediately with 'no response' or something.)
So, putting the same lists into the hosts file is pointless, and even just obscures the hosts file. (Otherwise, the hosts lookup would be done, redirected to localhost, which would have to timeout before getting back to the calling application. )
So iplist is letting the application response time be at least as fast as an entry in the hosts file, and also tinkering with the hostfs file is … (pointlessly) redundant?
Am I thinking straight / correctly on this?
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Sanity check please: Given iplist in place, getting a blacklist into hosts is … not useful?
(If I could even figure out how to automate that downloading.)
iplist is just going to stay Mum on any request to a blocked site, right? (Even better if it comes back immediately with 'no response' or something.)
So, putting the same lists into the hosts file is pointless, and even just obscures the hosts file. (Otherwise, the hosts lookup would be done, redirected to localhost, which would have to timeout before getting back to the calling application. )
So iplist is letting the application response time be at least as fast as an entry in the hosts file, and also tinkering with the hostfs file is … (pointlessly) redundant?
Am I thinking straight / correctly on this?