Date: 03/10/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: linux

For various reasons I am trying to block images from specific servers. My solution so far has been to amend /etc/hosts and redirect all traffic to those servers to 127.0.0.1
This has worked OK when the images are located at http://bad_server.com/image.jpg, however several of the images use sub-domains. Pictures from sub-domain.bad_server.com/image.jpg are getting through. I've tried adding the entry *.bad_server.com and just bad_server.com but nothing seems to work, any ideas?
(using a mac btw, so linux/unix solutions should work too.)
[.EDIT] I tried the servers IP too. still no good.
oh yes, and there's an unknown quantity of subdomains, I want to block them all, otherwise it would be nice and simple...
[.Edit] Fixed, talk about trying to do things the hard way...

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