[RndTbl] Learning a little about /etc/hosts

[Sean Walberg]

Don't rely on the system resolver... Proxy out, by IP address if need be.

Not sure if Windows has an equivalent of LD_PRELOAD, but using your own
resolver that always uses DNS, would do it.


Sean



On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net>wrote:

> Interesting mental exercise - the most comprehensive way around that
> filtering technique is simply to delete the hosts file (or edit it, I
> suppose).
> But if it were somehow made immutable, how would I get around it?
> Ignoring the difficulty of doing so under Winsock32, I think I would run a
> transparent http proxy server bound to localhost that did its own DNS
> without relying on the system libs... Hmm, that sounds exactly like the
> win32 port of squid.
> -Adam
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