[ILUG] odd firefox/mozilla behaviour

[Frank Duignan]

yes these clingon sort of links are becominge annoying ..... a dynamic
list of such (like spamcop) would be nice
F
On 3/10/06, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Frank Duignan (frank.duignan at gmail.com):
>
> > Was wondering why slashdot was soooo slow when I noticed that it was waiting
> > for a connection to www.google-analytics.com.  This only happens with
> > firefox/mozilla.
> > It does not happen with konqueror or lynx.  Anyway, I simply put an entry in
> > my
> > hosts file along these lines:
> > 127.0.0.1               www.google-analytics.com
> > and suddenly all is sweet (there is no webserver running on localhost)
> > Anyone shed any light on why mozilla/firefox hangs around on this?  Firefox
> > 1.06 btw.
>
> It's a small bit of Javascript, effectively a "Web bug".  Google
> Analytics is what used to be the separate firm & marketing/advertising
> "metrics" product Urchin, recently gobbled up by Google.
>
> I've added google-analytics.com to the growing list of junk domains my
> nameserver resolves locally (along with lots of other "analytics"
> domains such as those of Webtrends, WebSideStory AKA Hitbox, and
> Omniture), doing for my entire LAN what you've accomplished at your
> machine in /etc/hosts, referencing this handy zonefile:
>
> $TTL 86400
> ;Generic make-advertisers-go-away zonefile.  Put YOUR IP address in the A line,
> ;and YOUR nameserver name in the NS line.
> @       IN      SOA     ns1.linuxmafia.COM.  rick.deirdre.NET. (
>                         2005112300              ; serial
>                         7200                    ; refresh 3 hours
>                         3600                    ; retry 1 hour
>                         2419200                 ; expire 1000 hours
>                         86400                   ; negative TTL 24 hours
>                         )
> ;
>                 IN      NS      ns1.linuxmafia.com.
> *               IN      A       198.144.195.186
>
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