security in firefox4

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Sun May 22 17:07:25 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 07:19, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Is that for your entire network, or just one computer? If it's just
>> for the one machine, you might find it easier to maintain a simple
>> hosts file.
>
> You might want to read my first paragraph, again...
>
> Though, even for just one computer, it offers something that can't be
> done with the hosts file:  Wildcarding.
>
> If I wanted to blacklist an entire domain, and all of its subdomains, I
> can't do that in the hosts file, I have to list each FQDN that I want to
> block.
>

I see. Nice.


> It also offers something else.  With the hosts file, you can only
> associate a different IP with the domain name (than the real IP).  With
> my solution you can offer a "no answer," essentially an "it does not
> exist" response.  Which is a faster kill, avoiding any waiting for
> responses.  And doesn't cause problems when you do have a webserver
> running on the localhost.
>

Clever, especially as I do have a server on localhost. Thanks.

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