Danoff
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For the uninitiated a DNS sinkhole is a blacklist of web name lookups that your DNS will refuse to grab an address for. It works as follows, you point your DNS to your sinkhole (like pi hole), which goes and fetches your DNS lookups for you unless you ask for one on the blacklist, and then it returns it as not found. So when you go to a website and directs a requests to an ad from a well known ad server, the sinkhole refuses it. Job jobbed
The benefit of an ad-blocker over a sinkhole is that you don't need a separate device running on your network. Also from some peoples' perspective ad blockers are safer since they don't have root access to a machine on your network. They're also easier to disable temporarily, and don't need to be rebooted in a power outage. The benefit of sinkholes is that the network traffic (and potentially malicious code) is not downloaded in the first place, and the sinkhole applies to all devices on your network, and if you VPN you can use the sinkhole remotely as well, and from some peoples' perspective the sinkhole is safer since it doesn't have access to your website passwords and keystrokes.
Of course you could run both, and get the benefits of each and the risks of both.
So what do you use and why? I know @Jordan is pretty deep into networking, so I'm interesting to hear if he has thoughts from the perspective of a host. Which of these options is the most damaging to sites like GTPlanet?
The benefit of an ad-blocker over a sinkhole is that you don't need a separate device running on your network. Also from some peoples' perspective ad blockers are safer since they don't have root access to a machine on your network. They're also easier to disable temporarily, and don't need to be rebooted in a power outage. The benefit of sinkholes is that the network traffic (and potentially malicious code) is not downloaded in the first place, and the sinkhole applies to all devices on your network, and if you VPN you can use the sinkhole remotely as well, and from some peoples' perspective the sinkhole is safer since it doesn't have access to your website passwords and keystrokes.
Of course you could run both, and get the benefits of each and the risks of both.
So what do you use and why? I know @Jordan is pretty deep into networking, so I'm interesting to hear if he has thoughts from the perspective of a host. Which of these options is the most damaging to sites like GTPlanet?
