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Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricardo \"Rick\" Gonzalez)
Tue Jul 27 12:59:44 2004

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:59:00 -0400
From: "Ricardo \"Rick\" Gonzalez" <rico.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271233060.21303@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> The A record for ad.doubleclick.net is missing from DNS.  This is
> causing apparent web page slowdowns when viewing web sites containing ads
> linked to ad.doubleclick.net

Adding an entry in LMHOSTS or /etc/hosts pointing ad.doubleclick.net
to 127.0.0.1 is generally a good idea, especially if you value your
privacy.

---Rico

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