[plug] unwanted date harvesting by omniture for ebay

[Simon Newton]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Gavin Chester<gavin.chester at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:26 -0700, Simon Newton wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Michael
>> Holland<michael.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2009/7/13 Gavin Chester <gavin.chester at gmail.com>
>> >>
>> >> besides. I edited this as my own hosts file and seems to have stopped
>> >> the unwanted traffic dead (as you'd expect). Find it here:
>> >> http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
>> >
>> >
>> > That's a big hosts file, and I think it will be read linearly for every NS
>> > lookup.
>>
>> If you're going to use this file I'd strongly recommend removing the
>>
>> 64.233.187.104        g        # google.com
>>
>> line. Not using it works fine as well :).
>
> Not sure why you "strongly" recommend that course of action :-/ Not
> using that google entry myself, but if you read the comment line
> associated with that entry it's to give a 'one-key' shortcut to google
> from the address line, not to 'block' google. Is there an issue that
> would cause? Just curious.

Many sites use DNS as the first layer of load balancing. Hard coding
an IP address results in clients disobeying the load balancing policy
and you risk going to a frontend that is malfunctioning or not in
service.  It also means you're unlikely to be using the best frontend
from a latency perspective.

Simon N

> Gavin.
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