Category: Initial setup | Updated: 3/10/2010 10:54:33 AM | Read: 1319 (Last: 9/3/2010 10:04:48 PM) Several entries in 3rd party lists will be redundant and already included in our keyword lists.
You can specify a custom blocked file in updater.exe and use the 'Consolidate redundant keywords' option, however updater.exe expects a DNS Redirector compatible list (not a HOSTS file).
Using converted HOSTS files with DNS Redirector can be redundant and in-efficient since each site must be individually specified as the fully-qualified-domain-name rather than just a partial domain name or keyword.
To make 3rd party files compatible with DNS Redirector... (basically every line must be a domain name or partial domain name) no lines can have "127.0.0.1" or some other IP address no lines can have "localhost" no lines can have characters / \ | : ; ' " ` ~ ! ? @ # $ % ^ & * + = ( ) ...any of these suggest a URL no lines can have http:// https:// ftp:// mms:// ...use the domain name part only no lines can have .. (two periods or more, in series) not valid and won't get resolved by DNS
The domain name is the only part of the URL to get resolved by DNS.
Which means "www.example.com" or ".example.com" or "example.com" are all acceptable keywords, with the last being the most thorough for blocking.
When manually merging lists remember that one keyword must appear on each line, the file cannot contain any spaces, nor any blank lines (except for the last line).
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