Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:27:05 -0500 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Maxim Khitrov" <mkhitrov@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND Message-ID: <8d23ec860712271327g6859748evc09d25ab78fdfbf1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750712271246j14795cf3wf8e9727f0f7cc148@mail.gmail.com> References: <26ddd1750712271246j14795cf3wf8e9727f0f7cc148@mail.gmail.com>
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On Dec 27, 2007 3:46 PM, Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently setting up a new firewall for my home network using > FreeBSD 7. The firewall will also act as our local name server > (authoritative for the local domain, and caching for everything else). > One of the things I'd like to do with it is use BIND to block various > undesirable domains (ad servers, malicious sites, etc.). The plan is > to have a separate BIND config file which is included in the main one. > In that file I map all the blocked domains to either the empty zone or > perhaps my local web server that's just serving a blank page for any > request. Haven't decided which way is better yet. This file is updated > periodically (once a week maybe) and BIND is then told to reload the > config. That's the plan as it stands now, eventually I hope to add a > web interface to the system for adding and removing blocked domains. > > My question for you guys is if know any _reliable_ sources for getting > that list of domains in the first place? I currently use the hosts > file on all my machines, which is about 2MB in size and hasn't been > updated in several years. I'll definitely import all of those entries > myself, but it would be good if I could periodically pull an updated > list from somewhere else. The following site has a pretty decent > collection of ad servers, though it's a bit short compared to what I > already have: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/. It even provides the > list in a BIND format, meaning that I don't need to do any additional > processing with it. Just fetch the page and reload BIND. This, > however, is not one of my requirements. I'm perfectly happy getting > just a list of the domains (in any format), and then processing them > into a BIND config file myself. Just need good sources. What are your > recommendations? > > - Max > _______________________________________________ You could always try one of those ad-blocking databases for firefox. The Ad-Block Plus plugin, I was thinking of specifically. http://easylist.adblockplus.org You could grab that file, then parse it and grab the domains out of it to block. I know this isn't what you want, but it may come in useful anyway: http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html
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