If using a firewall then the following program needs to be given
permission to access the internet.
c:\windows\system\dns\bin\dig.exe
Open a administrator command prompt and type :-
cd c:\windows\system\dns\bin (enter)
dig NS . @m.root-servers.net > root.hints
(enter)
This creates the file in folder c:\windows\system\dns\bin
Open the file with notepad, if it looks good then move it to folder
c:\windows\system\dns\etc
Use Bind9 to block adverts.
1) The named.conf file needs to contain the line :-
include "filter.conf";
If using the named.conf file from this site change the last line from
//include "filter.conf"; to include "filter.conf";
2) Need to add the file c:\windows\system\dns\etc\null.zone.file
null.zone.file
; DNS NULL Zone
File for host filtering
;
$TTL 36000
@ in soa localhost. postmaster.localhost. (
0 ;serial
0 ;refresh
0 ;retry
0 ;expiration
0 ) ;minimum
;
; Zone NS records
;
@
NS localhost.
A 127.0.0.1
*
IN A 0.0.0.0
Copy the above and past in to notepad, save as
c:\windows\system\dns\etc\null.zone.file
3) Need to add the file c:\windows\system\dns\etc\filter.conf
Only the first few lines of this large file are show here.
Peter Lowe maintains this list of adservers which I believe is updated
each month.
The list can be viewed here
.
4) Copy the full list from the web page and past in to notepad.
Save as c:\windows\system\dns\etc\filter.conf
5) Need to stop the service ISC BIND and re-start it or re-boot windows.
6)
Check that ad blocking is working by typing "www.101order.com" in the
browser. If the site is not found then ad blocking is working.
DNS Benchmark
Download
Steve Gibson's excellent DNS benchmark tool.
Benchmark results while running Bind9 (127.0.0.1) Uncached
result for Bind are disappointing. Cached results
are excellent.
Benchmark while running using Acrylic DNS Proxy (127.0.0.1)
which in turn
used DNS servers 62.6.40.162 and my ISP's DNS server.
Excellent uncached
and cached
result for Acrylic DNS Proxy.
It was however using one of the fastest DNS server in this test
62.6.40.162 and my ISP's as a secondary DNS server.
One
of the advantages of Acrylic is it can query up to three DNS servers at
the same time and use the answer from the first one to respond.
Windows only queries the second DNS server if the first fails to give
an answer.
