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    Blocking ads with hosts file/DNS forwarder

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      For the last year I have used a modified hosts file on my laptop to block ads and it works GREAT.  I got the DNS entries from here:

      http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

      There are many items in this list that pfBlocker/squidguard miss, and there are advantages to using a host file to redirect back to 127.0.0.1.  I tried to modify the hosts file in the pfSense and it was a disaster - the DNS forwarder keeps overwriting the hosts file when it is turned back on.

      I could add every single DNS entry manually inside of the DNS forwarder, but since there are several thousand of them this is not very practical.

      Is there a practical way to add these entries to the pfSense hosts file?

      The NSA is a terrorist organization that must be stopped.

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