Is there a Proxomitron clone for Linux?

[Bill Horne]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Prive" <scottprive at earthlink.net>
To: <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com>; "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
Cc: "BLU Discussion List" <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a Proxomitron clone for Linux?


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com>
> To: "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
> Cc: "BLU Discussion List" <discuss at blu.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Is there a Proxomitron clone for Linux?
>
>
> > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:04:56AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
> > > I've had good results using The Proxomitron ad-blocker on my windoze
> box,
> > > and would like to get an equivalent filter for Linux.
> > >
> > > Please pass along your opinions about how I can best eliminate
pop-ups,
> > > animated GIF's, etc. All suggestions welcome.
> >
> > Mozilla allows to disable javascript from opening unrequested windows.
> >
> > As for animated gifs, one solution is to use a caching dns server setup
> > to send dns queries for the domains hosting the ads into the abyss.  Two
> > steps: (1) configure your dns server to be authoritative for the
> > domains, (2) configure your resolv.conf to use localhost for name
> > lookups.  If you're using a dhcp client to set resolv.conf, you'll
> > likely need to edit the client's config to manually override the
> > nameserver setting.
> >
> > I have a named.conf based on debian stable's bind9 config at home that
> > looks like so:
> >
[snip]
>
> That's a good idea, and here are a couple of alternatives:
>
> 1) apply the same host spoofing to your hosts file (Windows has one,
also).
> 2) Use Mozilla's "block all images from this server" feature.
>
> Note that all three of these methods are ineffective when the ads are
hosted
> on a "regular" server (you can block/spoof fine, but you eliminate
> legitimate images as well).
>
> For these types of ads, you must use some kind of ad-blocking proxy, where
> the proxy has some list (or pattern match) on ad-related images. This is
how
> squid_redirect works... it is a collaboratively-maintained list of regex
> patterns, allow-exceptions and deny-exceptions.

My Linux firewall/web/Mailman server is a 486 with 48MB of ram and 2GB of
HD. Squid would be way too much for the machine, which has only 300 MB of
spare disk. I will, however, poison the hosts file as suggested: please pass
along your hosts files, and thanks in advance.

Thanks for the info on Mozilla: I didn't think to check that, given the
similarity to Netscape. Serves me right for putting the chicken before the
egg ;-).

Bill