#12123: Adding hostname and hosts file settings to Network prefs
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: pulkomandy
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Network | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by rrobgill):
I think many people who would be using the hosts file to set up local
domain names would be comfortable enough opening it up from a terminal to
make their additions.
For an ad blocking solution, a separate free-standing application could
allow management of the hosts file (and eg auto-updating of blacklisted
domains), and could also ensure that a suitable local server was
configured (to prevent issues where the page hangs waiting for a response
that will never come). It seems this could be a better way to handle it
than via the network settings preflet?
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12123#comment:3>
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