Steven Black

@notDavid you know, I hadn't even thought about IP ranges. Because, let's be honest, it's the IP address we ultimately care about. So here's another angle: sites that share IP...

> ...ultimately a firewall always blocks ip-addresses. Even if you specify a hostname. @notDavid how would we know this is true for Little Snitch? For example, in Little Snitch, if...

@notDavid, Dan @dnmTX, Nissar @funilrys, @ScriptTiger, @anudeepND, Tomasz @FadeMind, and all others... Here's an interesting engineering question. * Say we have a hosts list of length 10^6, or thereabouts. *...

Excellent point about `ttl`, @naveednajam. And yes, a database, definitely. Maybe a distributed one, maybe publicly accessible for read ops, so forks could share the data. Just thinking out loud,...

I would love that, Richard @rjhancock. Presently I have Little Snitch disabled because managing its rules is such a mess. If this were data-driven and automated, wow, that's a game...

@rjhancock man, that's beauty, right there. This is how Little Snitch should have always been. I'm going to dive into this as soon as I can come up for air.

LE @llacb47 using my [ghosts](https://github.com/StevenBlack/ghosts) tool — a side-project for now — I get the following report: ``` $ ./hoststools -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts -c https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-a-y/mobile-hosts/master/AdguardDNS.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Base hosts file summary: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Time is ticking on this one... Sorry for the delay @angelss197200 and Ray @r-a-y. I guess I'm still not sold on this one for two reasons. 1) You can't curate...

Here's an interesting comparison of the TLD tally in both lists, for TLD with > 100 domains. I'm using [ghosts](https://github.com/StevenBlack/ghosts) for this. Adding AdGuard gives us much better Russia/Asia coverage....

Those are good points Dan @dnmTX — I'll engage with them directly, and see what they say.