On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Paul M Foster wrote:
> To avoid a lot of ads, I use a trick where I identify the servers which
> are typically serving up ads, and remap them to 127.0.0.1 in my
> /etc/hosts file. This means I don't have to look at the ads. But it also
> means that I get a lot of apache barf on the page where the ad would be.
> The browser is trying to find whatever file is being asked for on my
> localhost, and apache can't find it (naturally). So there is 404 error
> text and the like.
>
> In order to avoid all this, is it possible to tell apache to server up a
> one-pixel graphic or somesuch whenever it's asked for a file I don't
> have? I don't actually serve any content from my localhost, even though
> apache is running in the background.
What happens if you redirect them to 127.0.0.2 instead? Or some unused
address in the 192.168.*.* or 10.*.*.* ranges?
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