Didn’t know you could do that.
I tried it, but my bind complained that I was not authoritive.
(Right now there is a dns-storm against the USA-IRS)


From: "Joe Zeff" <joe@zeff.us>
Date: Sunday, 24 January 2021 at 08:07:57
To: "users@lists.fedoraproject.org" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: midco DNS corruption?

On 1/23/21 10:30 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> I used to do that, but using the hosts file only leaves you with two
> choices:  Give annoying domains a wrong IP to connect to that either
> tries to load non-existent files from a real server (wasting traffic
> and filling logs), or tries to connect to a server that isn't there
> (and waits a long time for a timeout).

Or, you do the sensible thing and point said domain to 127.0.0.1, so
that it times out almost instantly.
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