OpenDNS is great, but it is a pain in the ass to set up on ubuntu... If you have a proper wireless router, or a Windows/Mac Machine, then it's worth it <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2008 8:57 AM, Daniel Mons < <a href="mailto:daniel.mons@iinet.net.au">daniel.mons@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> Shane Handley wrote: > Thanks for the explanation Stuart. > > Predictably their opt-out instructions do not include Linux: > > <a href="http://websearch.bigpond.com/bpdnshelp.do" target="_blank"> http://websearch.bigpond.com/bpdnshelp.do</a> > > I changed my DNS settings, but to no avail. > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond > user? </div>1) Install BIND on your system (sudo apt-get install bind9). 2) Set your machine's DNS resolve to be <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a> (localhost).  The easiest way is to edit your /etc/resolv.conf to have localhost as the only name server (sudo echo "nameserver <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank">127.0.0.1</a>" > /etc/resolv.conf). 3) Close all Firefox windows (this is important, as Firefox will only read DNS changes on startup).  If you have multiple users on your system (via fast user switching, etc) close their sessions too.  Reopen Firefox, and be free of Telstra's DNS. BIND9 by default does not have any forwarders supplied, so it will do name resolution directly from the root nameservers: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver</a> You may find your DNS resolution slower than normal for the first few minutes of web browsing, as you have to go out of the Telstra network to resolve names.  But BIND9 caches data, so after a few minutes you'll actually find it will be faster (particularly if you're browsing around inside a few sites). I use BIND9 with root nameserver resolution on all home and business systems I configure (I usually put it on a central firewall or proxy machine so the whole LAN/WAN can use it, and all share the DNS cache). I have had bad experiences with ISP-supplied DNS servers too many times in the past, and find it infinitely more reliable to handle DNS "straight from the horses mouth", as it were. As another option, I have heard good things about OpenDNS: <a href="http://www.opendns.com/" target="_blank"> http://www.opendns.com/</a> But I've never used it myself, so I can't comment. -Dan <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Matthew Rossi I am for Macs, and the open source scene, are you?  Read my blog at <a href="http://www.mattr.co.nr">www.mattr.co.nr</a>.  You can also find my podcast at <a href="http://www.penguincentral.co.nr"> www.penguincentral.co.nr</a> Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso Spanish Cubist painter (1881 - 1973) <a href="http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532">http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/455532 </a>