Loyal,
That presupposes two things: that you have a spare computer to run it on (which I don't), and that it is simple enough for "newbies" to do.
These days, I get by with my one laptop--the days of having five or six machines around are long gone. (At one point when I was back in Dallas, I had set up a portable shelving unit with six computers, both a laser and a workgroup-scale inkjet printer, and a scanner as well as a KVM switch so I could use one keyboard, monitor, and mouse for the whole shebang. Now, living in Ukraine, I have a single laptop, a couple of external hard disks and an external DVD unit. It works off a wireless router, as does my stepson's desktop and his netbook.)
You are correct, though, that any dynamic IPs would not be any better with a hosts file customized. However, the major sites generally don't use dynamic IP addresses.
While obviously there are some on this list who are far from being "newbies" themselves, others are most definitely newcomers. For them, editing the hosts file is something they can do easily enough, with big enough benefits that it is a worthwhile activity. After doing it, they will see a boost in their Internet performance--although that boost will depend partly on how good their own DNS access is, it should still be more than trivial--especially if they commonly visit advertising-laden websites.
David
David
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "loyal_barber" <loyal_barber@...> wrote:
>
> Another way to do this that is safer for any IP address that might
> change is to set up a caching DNS server then point all of your
> computers to it first then secondarily to your current DNS. I changed
> the DNS settings in my router to point to my caching server first.
>
> Loyal
>
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