Thus it was written in the epistle of David T Darnell,
> Getting really peeved about all the web content (or is it just Netscape?)
> that references ads.web.aol.com, I modified my HOSTS file to point
> ads.web.aol.com to IP address 0.0.0.0.  This works OK most of the time, as
> the browser seems to give up on that reference and move on. In some cases,
> though, the browser errors-out waitng for host 0.0.0.0 to reply.
>
> Is there an IP address for a server that will return a null document for any
> request?

If you set it to 127.0.0.1, it will just contact your local machine and should
give up very quickly.

> or, is there a better way to just filter out the references to the URLs for
> hosts I do not want  to see?

That's a pretty effective method.  Another possibility is using Naviscope
(freeware) which does ad-blocking on the bases of URL.

HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
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This seems to be one of the many cases in which the admitted accuracy of
mathematical processes is allowed to throw a wholly inadmissible appearance
of authority over the results obtained by them. Mathematics may be compared
to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff of any degree of
fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in;
and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from
peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose
data.
                        -- Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
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