[conspire] Inserting Ads Into Message Postings?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:26:17 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):
> 
>> You don't even need BIND9; dnsmasq or even dproxy will do the job.
> 
> To serve up authoritative nameservice for advertising domains, you must
> choose a nameserver daemon _capable_ of authoritative service.  Dnsmasq
> will do that; dproxy will not.

Not so. If the only DNS server a machine is using is running dproxy, then
all DNS requests of any kind go through it and respect the /etc/hosts file
on the machine running dproxy. The drawback in this scenario is that you
cannot use wildcards in /etc/hosts.