Re: How to block a website on ubuntu

I missed the beginning message in this thread I guess but a simple local
solution to block a site is to specify it in the hosts file and direct it to
somewhere else. That's for Ubuntu, windows, whatever.




On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Jordon Bedwell <jordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 09/02/2011 02:58 PM, ANDY wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Chris <racerx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not use opendns?
Local control is often preferred.
In my case, I use Google DNS.


Maybe I'm just losing my mind here, but if local control is preferred
why are you using Google DNS again? I mean I just don't understand? What
does that even mean to say that and then use Google DNS?

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