You need a space in there between "127.0.0.1" and "ads.doubleclick.net".
The line should read:
127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net
Comments in the hosts file begin with '#'
There's a good site for pre-written hosts files:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Also contains a lot of troubleshooting information. Apparently Windows
Vista and Windows 7 don't want to let you make changes to the hosts file.
From: Ecke PDML
In Windows, open C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad and
add a line that says 127.0.0.1ads.doubleclick.net then restart your
computer and links to that server will go straight to nirvana =)
2011/6/29 Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>:
> Bruce,
> Oh you gotta give us more details on that!
> Regards, ?Bob S.
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 11-06-27 1:09 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
>>>
>>> I just clicked on a PESO hosted on photo.net. ?It popped up an
>>> interstitial ad that I had to view or dismiss before I could see the
>>> picture. [...]
>>
>> I'm no fan of photo.net, but I've never seen these popups and I see very few
>> of the banner ads, so I've been a bit puzzled about all the fuss.
>>
>> So while looking at Dave Brooks' latest shots I investigated to see what was
>> happening -- of course! ?Years ago I configured my DSL router (pfSense) to
>> return "host not found" replies to all domain-name lookups for
>> doubleclick.net, which happens to cover the majority of ads at photo.net.
>> ?So no popups, and empty whitespace where the banner ads usually go for all
>> the computers in the house. ?DNS proxies are a wonderful thing. ;-)
>>
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