Re: Netstat weirdness
From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 01/21/03
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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 15:19:18 GMT
In article <ui2X9.78321$sV3.3489516@news3.calgary.shaw.ca>,
nightspore <nightspore@hotmail.com> wrote:
>You hit the nail on the head. I had just recently downloaded a humongous
>Hosts file and had been using since last week. I just went through it and it
>had about 10 similar problems that you described.
>They were all mapped 0.0.0.0, what a relief.
My guess is that this hosts file is intended to be for banner ad-blocking.
It maps the names of the sites where the banner ads come from to 0.0.0.0 so
that the connections fail.
The inadvertent consequence of this is that netstat translates 0.0.0.0 back
to one of these names.
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