[ale] blocking adds at the Firewall?

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Wed Jan 8 12:00:07 EST 2003


On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:30 am, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Hey guys, I think this is an easy question, but for some reason I'm
> drawing a blank on the best way to go about it.  I basically want to
> block advertisements from doubleclick.net, atwola, et tal... What's the
> best way i should do this?  Should I deny the packets at the firewall,
> or should I put an entry into my internal DNS for these servers?

May I recommend junkbuster (www.junkbuster.org, I think).  I've used it for 
years and it works well.

> Also, does anyone have a quick list of the biggest/baddest ad servers to
> block... ?

Junkbuster comes with a block list, and there are many on the web that you 
can find with google.

--Michael


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