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Old 12-01-2004, 04:25 PM   #1
corso64
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Question blocking a site with /etc/hosts


I'm currently running Fedora Core 2 and am attempting to block ads coming from the many doubleclick sites, particularly the Microsoft 'Get the facts' ad that are served with every linuxtoday pageview. I've tried using entries in /etc/hosts and Firefox with Adblock and the following entries in the Adblock filter section:

*doubleclick*
doubleclick.net
ad.doubleclick.net
http://*.doubleclick.net

with no luck. So I added the following section to my /etc/hosts file with the ad still getting through:

# doubleclick
127.0.0.1 3ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.3au.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.au.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.br.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.ca.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.de.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.es.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.fi.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.fr.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.it.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.jp.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.n2434.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.nl.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.no.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.pl.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.se.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.sg.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.uk.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.ve.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad.za.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ad2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.com
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.de
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 exnjadgda1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 exnjadgda2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 exnjadgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 exnjmdgda1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 exnjmdgds1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd10.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd11.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd12.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd13.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd14.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd15.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd16.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd17.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd18.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd19.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd20.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd21.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd22.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd23.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd24.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd25.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd26.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd27.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd28.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd29.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd3.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd30.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd31.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd4.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd5.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd7.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd8.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 gd9.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 iv.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m2.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m3.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m4.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m5.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m6.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m7.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m8.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m9.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 n479ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 optimize.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 rd.intl.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 uunyadgda1.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 uunyadgds1.doubleclick.net

What am I missing?
In case it helps, the following URL using Firefox with Adblock still displays the d*mned MS ad...just pisses me off (maybe I should just quit going to linuxtoday ;-)

http://www.linuxtoday.org/

The offending HTML references doubleclick as follows:

<<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347D|0|0|%2a|p;11381666;2-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7381392|7399288|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/indaudit.mspx"><b>Veritest: Independent Audit Measures Swifter, Easier Deployment for Microsoft Windows</b>
<br>

"Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003
vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 Deployment" says that in time
and complexity, Windows is easier and faster to deploy.</a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347A|0|0|%2a|s;11381666;0-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7328817|7346713|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/entcost.mspx"><b>Yankee Group: Large Enterprises: Switching from Windows to Linux "Prohibitively Expensive, Extremely Complex, Provides No Tangible Business Gains"</b>
<br>
This two-part, non-sponsored report calculates that
a major Linux deployment or switch from Windows is four times more
expensive and takes three times longer than a Windows upgrade.</a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347D|0|0|%2a|j;11381666;0-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7381390|7399286|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/metamigrate.mspx"><b>Meta Group: Windows Server Offers Compelling Advantages over UNIX
as ERP Hosting Platform.</b></a></div></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347D|0|0|%2a|z;11381666;1-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7381391|7399287|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/tcoadvan.mspx"><b>IDC: Lower Windows Staffing Costs Provide TCO Advantage over Linux</b></a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347A|0|0|%2a|i;11381666;1-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7328818|7346714|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/opencost.mspx"><b>Forrester: Detailed Financials Show Total Linux Costs Higher Than Windows Costs by 5 to 20 Percent</b></a></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div id="mscnavi" style="width:345px"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click;h=v2|347A|0|0|%2a|y;11381666;2-0;0;10368124;31-1|1;7328819|7346715|1;;%3fhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/facts/analyses/comparable.mspx"><b>Bearing Point: Despite Perceptions, Licensing and Support Acquisition Costs Comparable for Windows Server, SUSE Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux</b></a></div></td>

</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 
Old 12-01-2004, 04:36 PM   #2
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a simple way to do it without much typing is to just get peerguardian and load the ad-servers list... http://methlabs.org peerguardian will block all of them on the kenel level never to return

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Old 12-01-2004, 08:08 PM   #3
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I downloaded PGD-0.3.zip and went to unzip it and got the following:

Archive: PGD-0.3.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of PGD-0.3.zip or
PGD-0.3.zip.zip, and cannot find PGD-0.3.zip.ZIP, period.

I tried getting this from a few different machines and unzipping it with the same results.
So I grabbed PGLinuxD-0.21, unzipped it, and got the following when I ran it:

[root@localhost installed]# ./peerguardian.sh
Welcome to PeerGuardian Linux Daemon - PGLinuxD - vesion 0.21
A Methlabs Production - http://www.methlabs.org
----------------------------
By Joseph Farthing - JFM, Braindancer
Original PeerGuardian by Method
----------------------------
Current blocklist http://www.methlabs.org/sync/guarding_plus.p2p.zip
Download data logged to ./log.txt
----------------------------
Enjoy the program!
----------------------------
Downloading the blocklist guarding_plus.p2p.zip, please wait.
Archive: guarding_plus.p2p.zip
inflating: guarding.p2p
Converting the blocklist, please wait.
PGD Converter started, version 0.21
Exporting to iptables, this may take over a minute on an old machine.
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
Rules have been successfully exported, applying DROP policy.
iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Congratulations, rules should be successfully imported, rule is DROP
----------------------------
iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
----------------------------
iptables: Invalid argument

When I ran iptables -L PEERGUARDIAN I got the following:

root@localhost installed]# iptables -L PEERGUARDIAN
iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)

Obviously its hosed. It'd be nice if PGD-0.3.zip wasn't corrupted. Know where I can find an uncorrupted copy?
 
Old 12-01-2004, 08:19 PM   #4
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Why do you blame the install or download instead of reading the error messages?

Are you sure you've got iptables setup right?
 
Old 12-01-2004, 08:42 PM   #5
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The newest .zip of Peerguardian is corrupt so I grabbed the older version and tried it.
I'm pretty sure iptables is set up right. What exactly should I be looking for?
I don't know enough about perl to be able to know exactly what the PGLinuxD-import.pl is doing
with the guarding.p2p file (that has the ip address ranges to block) to update iptables. I just don't know enough
about either perl or iptables yet to do it myself...that's why I was relying on the install scripts to do it for me.
I'm learning as fast as I can. I just wanted an easy way to block stuff, not learn how to code in perl or write low-level packet filters,
anyone got any good references for iptables?

Forever a newb,
corso
 
Old 12-02-2004, 08:08 AM   #6
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visit www.netfilter.org . u will find enough docs about iptables there.
it is possible to block lots of addware, porn, etc. trou proxy. it is better idea to prefer proxy instead of iptables commands. i use squid and squidguard to stay my LAN computers away from ad and porn sites. squidguard works as a child process of squid. so u need both. squidguard has blacklist db file which includes over 100.000 only porn records. it is better to add these domains or ip s to /etc/host file
www.squidguard.org
www.squid-cache.org

good luck.
 
Old 12-03-2004, 04:29 AM   #7
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iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
is normal the first tie u run it....red the install notes

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