Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au):
You might like my prototype BIND9 conffiles, which resolve locally a great many advertising, data-mining, and similar domains. http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/network/bind9-examples-linuxmafia.tar.gz
[my prototype BIND9 conffiles that resolve locally many advertising, data-mining, and similar domains]
Okay, that's a little interesting, but the trouble with static entries is that some hosts go and other hosts appear. Perhaps EFF's "Adblock Plus" [1] is what you really /need/ ... at least that's an option.
I use and strongly recommend AdBlock Plus. It's my second highest recommendation among Firefox extensions, right after NoScript. However: 1. I prefer to resolve into nothingness a bunch of domains that no ABP blocklist blocks, and my way is easier than creating such a list. 2. My way extends benevolent local quality control over Internet domains to all local users of my nameserver, not just to my own instance of Firefox on my own machine. 3. My way also extends that quality control to all other applications, not just Firefox. 4. Though I'd love to have some sort of collaborative effort and not need to occasionally find and deal with new data-mining / tracking / etc. domains, I'm by far the person whose judgement I trust most for that job, and also nobody else volunteered. Removing domains hasn't yet been an issue: Eventually I'll probably do a bulk-verify that the current ones are still registered; in most cases, I have great doubts that they'll ever be repurposed by a new user for services I would want to be able to use. (I could be wrong; we shall see.) So, basically, no, ABP is not in the same problem set, though it is highly meritorious on its own terms.
Also, I wonder if it is a good idea(tm) to use LOC resource records.... and also the HINFO [2] .... giving too much away? And /too easy/ to have old details that aren't relevant.
The LOC stuff unwise? Why, because the location of my house is a secret? If you look on httpd://linuxmafia.com/~rick/, you'll see 'ICBM Coordinates', which is latitude, longitude, and altitude of my bedroom to the precision of about a metre. The HINFO stuff unwise? First of all, it's inaccurate. Second, anyone who's so extremely ill-prepared for contact with the Internet that _that_ level of resource-discovery exposes damning vulnerabilities has a lot bigger problems. That having been said, I keep intending to revise the HINFO RRs to something amusingly ludicrous, like Minix on SuperNintendo.