[ale] blocking adds at the Firewall?

[attriel at d20boards.net (attriel)]

> 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?

Well, a lot of windows folks I know have started putting it in their hosts
files ... Of course, apparently this does soemthing bad to IE that I don't
quite follow :o

But since the site putting up the ads may be getting fundage from them,
you'd probably be better killing it at the FW; I'm not sure how they count
whether they've been delivered or not, but I garauntee that it at least
requires the adserver to send out the packets :)

OTOH, if you don't care about the site getting the aforementioned fundage,
either should work fine :)

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

Can't help you there :/

--attriel


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