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Dirk Mueller wrote:
>On Sunday 13 February 2005 04:02, you wrote:
>> Moved ipv6blacklist to work only on non-IPv4 hosts. This way, this can
>> no longer be considered for "adblocking", but it can be used to kill
>> broken sites.
>>
>> The old feature of full blocking is no longer present.
>
>why was it removed? any complains?

Let me explain better, because other people have asked.

I introduced the blacklist feature to get around broken DNS servers, that=20
would drop or somehow return wrong answers for IPv6 lookups. My=20
understanding is that we shouldn't talk at all to those servers and=20
simply say that anything under those domains doesn't exist.

However, it was argued that some sites that are problematic are the very=20
sites people want to access, such as banking sites.

Instead of adding a new blacklist, I simply moved the functionality of the=
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existing one. Now it avoids sending IPv6 queries in most cases -- there=20
is still one case it will send, but it's very rare and I don't think=20
there's any KDE code using it. That in turn means that normal IPv4=20
queries go through untouched.

The end result is that the ipv6blacklist file can no longer be used as an=20
adblocker list -- a functionality it was never intended to do in the=20
first place.

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