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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I can't claim credit for this response
as I asked a local guru I know and here is his response regarding
the concept of whether there's a "null" IP you can use ...<br>
<br>
Nope, not really ... but there are the reserved RFC1918 address
ranges that could be used - 127/8, 10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168.0/16.<br>
<div>What this DNSmasq thing is doing it trying to 'throw away'
requests for the specified sites completely, but in fact all it
is doing is to provide an answer, just not the one they wanted.
In this case the answer was '127.0.0.1' and for the person on
this post, they were testing *from the server* so of course they
got the server's local HTTP service. If you tried it from a
workstation, you'd not get the same result ... unless you had a
web server installed on there as well. The default web servers
listen to anything on 127/8 :-)</div>
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<div>You can return any IP you want with dnsmasq, and if you
return an address that doesn't exist you'll trigger a long
timeout while the web browser waits for an answer ... so it's
best to not do this at all. If you don't use the 10/8 network,
you'd say address=/<a href="http://ihatethissite.com/10.0.0.1">ihatethissite.com/10.0.0.1</a>
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<div>I note that all of the addresses in that example are
effectively web services, so in this case the better option
would be to have a web proxy on the network that filtered out
those sites. The other common alternative is to have a web
browser do the filtering (using an addon like NoScript or
something); and of course you also keep another web browser
handy that doesn't have those restrictions, just in case one day
you need those sites ...</div>
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Cheers,<br>
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- Bob -<br>
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On 12/02/14 11:46, Gabriel wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I haven't tried it, but maybe 127.0.0.2 will do the
trick.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 11, 2014 4:40 PM, "Chris Green"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>>
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I have a few entries in my dnsmasq.conf file to block some
tracking<br>
sites, as follows:-<br>
<br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.addthis.com/127.0.0.1" target="_blank">www.addthis.com/127.0.0.1</a><br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1"
target="_blank">googlesyndication.com/127.0.0.1</a><br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://google-analytics.com/127.0.0.1" target="_blank">google-analytics.com/127.0.0.1</a><br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://googleadservices.com/127.0.0.1" target="_blank">googleadservices.com/127.0.0.1</a><br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1" target="_blank">doubleclick.net/127.0.0.1</a><br>
address=/<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://finder.cox.net/127.0.0.1" target="_blank">finder.cox.net/127.0.0.1</a><br>
<br>
However this means that my web server gets the hits instead if
the<br>
requests are HTTP ones. I.e. if I enter <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.addthis.com"
target="_blank">www.addthis.com</a> into the<br>
Firefox address it takes me to my local web server's root
page.<br>
<br>
Is there any IP I can put there which will prevent this - i.e.
which<br>
is a sort of 'do nothing' IP? I've tried 0.0.0.0 but that
takes me to<br>
the local page in exactly the same way as 127.0.0.1.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Chris Green<br>
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