modify hosts file

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Michael Casey <michaelcasey73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've modified the /etc/hosts file, like this:
> but I don't want to set 127.0.0.1 to them, because then I have to wait until
> "timeout"

This isn't the way I'd do it, but if you want to do that, then tell
your firewall to block rather than drop - that's the timeout.

something like adzapper is a better solution I think...

Brian
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