On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:37:11 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:

> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>>o.k., after a quick google, i get that 127.0.0.1 loops back to your own
>>machine. but what is the practical result of adding such a line to the
>>host file? does it just bypass any hits for cooks.com?
>
> It prevents hits from cooks.com, but better would be to redirect
> to a harmless page that loads quickly, since a broswer might
> try to keep loading the cooks.com page and get bogged down.
>
> There are lists of spam/ad sites you can redirect for generally
> faster browser operation, but I haven't tried this.
>
> Steve

so am i correct in thinking that you wouldn't really 'see' anything
different, just that cooks.com would not show up on your list of hits page?

your pal,
blake