I have a fantastic HOSTS file (where can I post it for others tobenefit)?

Where can I post a 25,000 line text file for others to benefit?

I have a fantastic hosts file, improved over years, always adding
the MVP hosts file to it, and adding about a thousand obnoxious
domains that I've run into such that I almost never see a valid
popup browser (they pop up, but they are all unfound). I never
see in-page ads either.

Yes, I know that many of you use pop up blockers, and hence you have
no need for a great hosts file. Yes I know many of you use noscript,
and ghostery and all sorts of spyware blasters.

This isn't about that.
This is simply about the hosts text file. Period.
And how to upload it so that others can benefit from my effort.

All this is asking is *where* I can post my excellent HOSTS file
so that others may benefit from using it?

It's looooooong (it's almost 25K lines long!).

I just want to post it, as a text file, so others can use it and
improve it. What location do you suggest?

On 08/29/2014 07:46 PM, Ned Turnbull wrote:
Where can I post a 25,000 line text file for others to benefit?

I have a fantastic hosts file, improved over years, always adding
the MVP hosts file to it, and adding about a thousand obnoxious
domains that I've run into such that I almost never see a valid
popup browser (they pop up, but they are all unfound). I never
see in-page ads either.

Yes, I know that many of you use pop up blockers, and hence you have
no need for a great hosts file. Yes I know many of you use noscript,
and ghostery and all sorts of spyware blasters.

This isn't about that.
This is simply about the hosts text file. Period.
And how to upload it so that others can benefit from my effort.

All this is asking is *where* I can post my excellent HOSTS file
so that others may benefit from using it?

It's looooooong (it's almost 25K lines long!).

I just want to post it, as a text file, so others can use it and
improve it. What location do you suggest?


Do you have a Dropbox account or the like that you can post a share address?

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 23:46:37 +0000 (UTC), Ned Turnbull
wrote:

Where can I post a 25,000 line text file for others to benefit?

I have a fantastic hosts file, improved over years, always adding
the MVP hosts file to it, and adding about a thousand obnoxious
domains that I've run into such that I almost never see a valid
popup browser (they pop up, but they are all unfound). I never
see in-page ads either.

Yes, I know that many of you use pop up blockers, and hence you have
no need for a great hosts file. Yes I know many of you use noscript,
and ghostery and all sorts of spyware blasters.

This isn't about that.
This is simply about the hosts text file. Period.
And how to upload it so that others can benefit from my effort.

All this is asking is *where* I can post my excellent HOSTS file
so that others may benefit from using it?

It's looooooong (it's almost 25K lines long!).

I just want to post it, as a text file, so others can use it and
improve it. What location do you suggest?

Zip it, make a torrent and upload it to a tracker. Post the
magnet URL here.
But a hosts file that big would probably have thousands of
obsolete entries, and maybe block hosts that others might not consider
eViL. For example, MVP used to block my Brazilian email provider.
My currents hosts file has under 200 entries. It just blocks
sites with major privacy issues.
[]'s
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Ned Turnbull wrote:
Where can I post a 25,000 line text file for others to benefit?

I have a fantastic hosts file, improved over years, always adding
the MVP hosts file to it, and adding about a thousand obnoxious
domains that I've run into such that I almost never see a valid
popup browser (they pop up, but they are all unfound). I never
see in-page ads either.

Yes, I know that many of you use pop up blockers, and hence you have
no need for a great hosts file. Yes I know many of you use noscript,
and ghostery and all sorts of spyware blasters.

This isn't about that.
This is simply about the hosts text file. Period.
And how to upload it so that others can benefit from my effort.

All this is asking is *where* I can post my excellent HOSTS file
so that others may benefit from using it?

It's looooooong (it's almost 25K lines long!).

I just want to post it, as a text file, so others can use it and
improve it. What location do you suggest?


http://pastebin.com/

Paul

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:02:21 -0400, Caver1 wrote:

Do you have a Dropbox account or the like that you can post a share address?

No. I have zero shared accounts.
I use tinypic.com when I need to upload a file.
If there is a good anonymous site for (large) TEXT files, I can use that.

I just ran a word count on the MVP HOSTS file compared to mine:
$ wc -l HOSTS
== 15311 HOSTS

$ wc -l /etc/hosts
== 23784 /etc/hosts

So, my hosts file is 50% larger than the MVP hosts file.
I personally collected all the obnoxious URLs of popup after popup, over
the span of years, and *every* addition was vetted by me.

Of course, you have no idea how thorough I am, but, since it's a text file,
you can easily run a sort and then a diff to easily see the eight thousand
domains I've personally added, over the fifteen thousand that are in the MVP
hosts file.

I just merged mine with the MVP hosts file today, so, my file has *every*
domain that is in today's MVP hosts file, plus the eight thousand that I
have added.

Anyway, let me know *where* I can upload the text file so that others can
stand on my shoulders if they want.

NOTE: Linux stores line feeds and the end of file character differently
than Windows does; so, this file is in Linux ASCII text format (which
Windows can easily handle). The MVP file is in Windows ASCII text format.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:03:18 -0300, Shadow wrote:

Zip it, make a torrent and upload it to a tracker. Post the
magnet URL here.

That's a very interesting idea!
I have *never* uploaded (seeded?) a torrent in my life!
[I have downloaded torrents, e.g., my Linux distribution.]

So, I will see if I can figure out *how* to "seed" a torrent.
If I do seed, can I keep my IP address anonymous (since it's fixed) when
I create a torrent?
[I can do it from Starbucks, but, it would be more convenient from home.]

But a hosts file that big would probably have thousands of
obsolete entries, and maybe block hosts that others might not consider
eViL.

Hmmmm.... I wonder.
I know what you're saying.

And, it can certainly be the case.
But, I can tell you that the MVP hosts file does not block enough popups,
or I wouldn't have gotten them in the first place.

once a popup happens, I simply put it in the hosts file, and that
popup never happens again. Of course, as you imply, I don't go *back*,
years later, and revisit them.

So, like any hosts file, you'll have to decide for yourself if you
want the ones I've added. If it's worthwhile, I can figure out a command
that will strip out of my current hosts file all the hosts that are in
the MVP hosts file, so, the result would be *just* the eight thousand
that I have added myself.

You can then *look* at those eight thousand, and judge for yourself if
you want to add them or not. If that would be more useful, I can upload
just my additions, instead.

Note: But, of course, then the user has to *merge* the two, which is
easy for many of us on Linux but Windows users may have a problem
because of the different way Linux and Windows stores ASCII text file
line feeds and the end of file character.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:09:33 -0400, Paul wrote:

http://pastebin.com/

I had never heard of pastebin.com.
So, as a guest, I pasted the twenty-four thousand line hosts
text file and named it:
23734_line_hosts_file_mvp_plus_mine.txt

The error was:
You have exceeded the maximum file size of 500 kilobytes
per paste. PRO users don't have this limit!

Looking at the file size, it's 719KB, so, I broke off the
first 10,000 lines, and called that first half:
20140829_ned_hosts_file_part1of2.txt
And then I put the rest of the lines into:
20140829_ned_hosts_file_part2of2.txt

This complained:
Your paste has triggered our automatic SPAM detection filter.
This happens when links or certain keywords are detected in a
paste. It can also happen if you are creating a lot of items
in a short period of time. To confirm you are not a bot,
please fill out the captcha below.

Luckily, the captcha was humanly possible (I've seen much worse),
and I was able to paste the two halves of the hosts text file.

I don't know what the location is, but I *think* the two URLs a
http://pastebin.com/50qSsj43 for 20140829_ned_hosts_file_part1of2.txt
http://pastebin.com/kNwVWKxb for 20140829_ned_hosts_file_part2of2.txt

At least those are what the top URL bar seems to show for each file.
Let me know how that works for you.

On 30/08/2014 01:35, Ned Turnbull wrote:

http://pastebin.com/
I had never heard of pastebin.com.
So, as a guest, I pasted the twenty-four thousand line hosts
text file and named it:
23734_line_hosts_file_mvp_plus_mine.txt



Please note that Paul is a known drug addict. He hasn't got a clue that
text files have a limit and paste bin has always had a limit. You wi8ll
only waste your time following his advice.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:26:20 +0100, Good Guy wrote:

Try this:
134.170.188.221 google.com
134.170.185.46 www.google.com

Aye Yai Yai.

Good Guy, we all know how a hosts file works.
So, we don't have to try that. We know what it does.

But, NONE of those redirects are in the file I already uploaded.
All the redirects are to 127.0.0.1 for a reason!

a hosts file doesn't need to start with 127.0.0.1 as you
seem to suggest here.

Huh? What are you talking about?

There are a few ways to redirect to the "localhost", but,
127.0.0.1 is a perfectly valid way to do so.

Do you even realize how the MVP file is supposed to work?

Please read this web page, for a background of what we're trying
to accomplish: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:26:20 +0100, Good Guy wrote:

You don't seem to
know how hosts file work or what purpose is there for it to be on a
windows machine. right?

Are you a troll?

I don't know you, but, clearly, I know how a hosts file works.
You do too, as can be shown by your manufactured redirects.

So, while what you say *can* happen (i.e., I could have inserted
redirects into the hosts file that I already uploaded), the fact
that I didn't, would be clear to you in a split second if you
only knew how a 'grep' works (or even a "search").

The fact that I didn't insert any redirects, is the fact you
seem to keep missing.

I think you're trolling, so, unless you add *new* information, I'm
gonna stop wasting other people's time (reading this rot), and stop
responding to your crazy concerns.

I repeat the facts:
1. I could have inserted spurious redirects into the hosts file,
2. But, I didn't. They all redirect to the localhost.
3. Anyone who has eyeballs can verify that fact.

So, you're worried about a meteor landing on your head.
OK. Run around warning everyone about that.
But, it just makes you look, well, you know what it makes you look like.

So, I refuse to carry that further with you unless/until you start
making some sense.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:57:19 +0000, Dustin wrote:

Why not .zip it and paste that instead? the zip would be much much
smaller. It's text. It'll compress well.

I have never zipped anything (I just unzip them).
So, I ran zip on hosts, but it created nothing.
$ zip hosts
zip error: Nothing to do! (hosts.zip)

OK. So I ran gzip on hosts and it created hosts.gz
$ gzip hosts
Creates hosts.gz

A 'head' of that hosts.gz file shows that it's "stuff",
but, now it comes time to cut and paste it.

So, I run geedit to then copy and paste:
$ gedit hosts.gz
And, huh? Well, I'll be? What the ...
I see the TEXT file!

Somehow, gedit is unzipping the hosts.gz.

So, how am I supposed to copy and paste the contents into the
paste.bin form?

Normally, I run gedit, and then I can use the file command to
copy and then to paste.

But, if gedit automagically unzips the gz file, then I can't
copy and paste.

So, I gave up on that idea of zipping it, unless someone knows
how to copy and paste the scrambled egg contents of a zip file.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:30:02 +0100, Good Guy wrote:

Good Guy here at your service, throwing a gauntlet at you to prove it is
impossible.

Because there are no redirects other than to localhost in the file I uploaded.
That's proof positive.

I don't think you understand anything I'm saying, so, I'm going to have to
let others prove to you what is obvious to everyone else already.

| Where can I post a 25,000 line text file for others to benefit?
|

I certainly wouldn't want a HOSTS file that big. The vast majority
of the entires are bound to be sites I'll never visit, either first-
party or third-party. I know there are many sites like that already
in the MVP HOSTS file. My own HOSTS file has about 250 entries.
Even that is more than is needed. The vast majority of sleazy third-
party domains linked from webpages are going to a small number
of sites, like doubleclick, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com,
googletagservices.com, 2o7.net, valueclick, facebook.com, etc.
I use a Desktop script occasionally to parse webpages for URLs
and rarely find one that I don't already have in my HOSTS file.

But if you want to make it available to people then why not get
your own website? You can have a fullscale website for less than
$10/month, and have as many email addresses as you can ever
use with your own domain.

That's the whole idea of the Internet, after all. It's a public
commons where all can take part. There's no reason to regard
it as merely a set of ad-supported services.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:41:28 -0400, Paul wrote:

In the time it took you to craft that post, you could
actuate the scroll bar and see that *all* the parameters
in the left column are 127.0.0.1.

Thank you Paul.

I was trying to be responsive, but, I think Good Guy doesn't
understand the main point as he's stuck on the "threat" of
the redirect that doesn't exist.

I do understand your point (that you don't want your system
to be loading a huge hosts file, which is a perfectly reasonable
concern and which is covered in the MVP Hosts web site):
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

BTW, I'm going to shorten the file to eight thousand lines
because I just found out how to create a file of just
the differences I've added, which is explained he

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...n-another-file

Gimme a few minutes to run the commands and then paste the results.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:09:48 +0000 (UTC)
Ned Turnbull wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:57:19 +0000, Dustin wrote:

Why not .zip it and paste that instead? the zip would be much much
smaller. It's text. It'll compress well.

I have never zipped anything (I just unzip them).
So, I ran zip on hosts, but it created nothing.
$ zip hosts
zip error: Nothing to do! (hosts.zip)

Should have been: zip hosts hosts.zip

OK. So I ran gzip on hosts and it created hosts.gz
$ gzip hosts
Creates hosts.gz

A 'head' of that hosts.gz file shows that it's "stuff",
but, now it comes time to cut and paste it.

So, I run geedit to then copy and paste:
$ gedit hosts.gz
And, huh? Well, I'll be? What the ...
I see the TEXT file!

Somehow, gedit is unzipping the hosts.gz.

So, how am I supposed to copy and paste the contents into the
paste.bin form?

Normally, I run gedit, and then I can use the file command to
copy and then to paste.

But, if gedit automagically unzips the gz file, then I can't
copy and paste.

So, I gave up on that idea of zipping it, unless someone knows
how to copy and paste the scrambled egg contents of a zip file.


You unzip it first. The idea to zip the file was to reduce
its size for posting.

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