Re: Way to block one website address?

From: zz (zz_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:20:28 GMT

Louise wrote:

>>>I would like to be able to block one website address without incurring
>>>the load of adding something like Norton parental controls.
>>>
>>>Can this be done?
>>
>>have you tried adding it to your local Hosts file and directing it to
>>127.0.0.1
>>
>>cheers
>>

>>
>>
>>
> Thanks - didn't know about doing that.
>
> Louise

Before the browser goes to the ISP DNS server it looks in the Hosts file
to translate the requested URL into an IP number. If a matching URL is
listed in the Hosts file the request never goes out to a DNS server. The
Hosts file can be used to stop requests to ad servers also.

g-w

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