Re: Block google page cache at firewall?

Volker Birk wrote:
> Jim Carlock <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Hosts files are available on Unix systems?
>
> at /etc/hosts - and on Windows systems at
> %SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\etc

By default, you can change it.

Besides that, HOSTS files are generally a bad idea. They're only limited
to DNS, so neither simple IPs or bad content on an otherwise good
server. It doesn't support RegExps, applies to every program (instead of
just the webbrowser) and I don't think an 70s' mechanism used as
shortcut before the invention of DNS is an adequate tool for security on
a 00' system.

And you always need root/admin rights to update it.

On Windows it's even worse: it causes DNS cache misses, even some errors
and at about 10.000 entries it will start to slow down the system.
Received on Mon May 1 01:05:22 2006