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Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karsten W. Rohrbach)
Tue Jul 27 17:28:23 2004

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:27:42 +0159
From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271233060.21303@clifden.donelan.com>
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Sean Donelan(sean@donelan.com)@2004.07.27 12:34:04 +0000:
> 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

Short remedy recipee:
- Download Firefox -> http://www.mozilla.org
- Install AdBlocker Extension (Tools>Extensions>Get Extensions...)
- Block http://*.doubleclick.net/
- Add more rules to your gusto and have a pleasant browsing experience ;-)

Regards,
/k

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