security in firefox4

Joe Wulf joe_wulf at yahoo.com
Thu May 19 16:55:49 UTC 2011


Awesome solution.  Thank you for helping to improve the world!




----- Original Message ----
> From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 10:05:27 AM
> Subject: Re: security in firefox4
> 
> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 14:38 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The internet works  better in my experience when
> > www.google-analytics.com
> > (and ssl.google-analytics.com) get blocked  at firewall level or stuck
> > in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1
> 
> I do  something similar with my DNS server.  I have a dead zone file,
> which  produces instant fails to any queries to any domain names I
> associate it  with.  It gives me neat, central, management of all
> computers on the  LAN.  My named.conf file also has these other
> google-related  domains:
> 
> zone "googlesyndication.com"    {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleservices.com"       {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "googleadservices.com"     {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> zone "google-analytics.com"     {  type master; file  "dead.zone"; };
> 
> And this is the dead.zone  file:
> 
> $TTL 86400
> @       IN       SOA     ns.localdomain.  hostmaster.mail.localdomain. (
>                          200  ; serial
>                          28800 ; refresh
>                          7200 ; retry
>                          604800 ;  expire 
>                          86400 ; ttl
>                          )
> 
> 
>          IN      NS       ns.localdomain.
> 
> Essentially, it's a wildcard "no answer" for the domain,  and any
> subdomain.
> 
> -- 
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname  -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
> 
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> 
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