ad.doubleclick.net

I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
ad.doubleclick.net".
So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
Is there any other way to do this?



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> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?



Try to set
ad.doubleclick.net 0.0.0.0
that's an incorrect address and your system won't load images from that
server.
Otherwise, IP addresses of doubleclick can be guessed from dig output:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> ad.doubleclick.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 39208
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ad.doubleclick.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ad.doubleclick.net. 617 IN CNAME gd24.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 28 IN A 206.65.183.156

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS uunyadgds2.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS eqvaadgds1.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS eqvaadgds2.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS spnyadgds1.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS spnyadgds2.doubleclick.net.
gd24.doubleclick.net. 2457 IN NS uunyadgds1.doubleclick.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
eqvaadgds1.doubleclick.net. 2507 IN A 216.73.87.242
eqvaadgds2.doubleclick.net. 5287 IN A 216.73.87.243
spnyadgds1.doubleclick.net. 1606 IN A 216.73.86.250
spnyadgds2.doubleclick.net. 6409 IN A 216.73.86.252
uunyadgds1.doubleclick.net. 2208 IN A 206.65.183.70
uunyadgds2.doubleclick.net. 2150 IN A 206.65.183.71

;; Query time: 82 msec
;; SERVER: 195.130.224.18#53(195.130.224.18)
;; WHEN: Fri Nov 14 10:39:20 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 317

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:20:23 GMT, (E-Mail Removed)
wrote:

> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
>the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
>to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
>ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
>ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
>to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
>you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?

It's not exactly the answer to your question, but IMHO it's a much
better solution to the problem of banners, pop-ups, pop-unders,
cookies, etc.

privoxy - the Privacy Proxy. Blocks all that crap, and does a very
nice job of it. http://www.privoxy.org/

Mike-

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Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have
installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If
email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded,
non-attachments.


----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
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---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

Michael W. Cocke in (E-Mail Removed) magna cum
audacia dixit:

> privoxy - the Privacy Proxy. Blocks all that crap, and does a very
> nice job of it. http://www.privoxy.org/

Does it work even on a server side?


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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:31:08 GMT, "Arsenio Lupin"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Michael W. Cocke in (E-Mail Removed) magna cum
>audacia dixit:
>
>> privoxy - the Privacy Proxy. Blocks all that crap, and does a very
>> nice job of it. http://www.privoxy.org/
>
>Does it work even on a server side?

You can do that - set it up very like the proxy in apache, or squid.
I'm not sure why you'd want to, but you can.

Mike-
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-----------------------------------------------------

Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have
installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If
email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded,
non-attachments.


----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups
---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?

Run your own DNS, and set empty zonefile for <doubleclick.net>.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <(E-Mail Removed)>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?

Try switching browsers. Mozilla Firebird is lean and mean (no email,
newsgroups, or HTML editor) but each time an unwanted advertisement
is encountered you can almost always set Firebird to block the site.

Flashmedia is an exception , as are images that are actually on a site
with other images that you actually want to see.

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:20:23 +0000, hseave wrote:

> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?

Uhm are you on something...why would you want to have ads pop up faster.

Just block pop-up ads in your browser.

also: put down the crack pipe and walk away.

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get used to it
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:20:23 +0000, hseave wrote:

> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?

The simplest approach is to add the following to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net addc

This causes the browser to "find" the ad site at your localhost and
return. The downside is that like other means of blocking popups,
sometimes the content is there too.

JW

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:20:23 GMT, (E-Mail Removed)
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I've noticed that there's more and more slowness in the web because of
> the many sites using ad.doubleclick.net -- when the browser tries to go
> to those sites, there's often a long pause and you see the "resolving
> ad.doubleclick.net".
> So thinking I could speed this up by just putting the IP for
> ad.doubleclick.net in my /etc/hosts file, I tried it, but the problem seems
> to be that they any number of number of servers aliased to that hostname, so
> you really can't just enter a static IP for them.
> Is there any other way to do this?
>
Put 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts file as the address for
ad.doubleclick.net.


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