Ad-blocking

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This section will document how to run your HDA as a network wide ad-blocking tool, utilising DNS redirects and a small pixel server.

Fedora 19

Precusors -

• You'll need net-tools installed to use ifconfig

yum install net-tools

• This guide assumes your network interface is named p2p1. Check with ifconfig, and change this guide where neccessary.

Pixel Server

• You need to download Pixelserv to the HDA:

wget http://proxytunnel.sourceforge.net/files/pixelserv.pl.txt 

• Move and rename the Pixelserv binary:

mv pixelserv.pl.txt /usr/local/bin/pixelserv

• Edit pixelserv using a file editing program of your choice

nano pixelserv

• Change the IP address to a free one of your choice (eg. 192.168.1.99)

$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (  LocalHost => '0.0.0.0',

change to

$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (  LocalHost => '192.168.1.99',

• Change permissions

chmod 755 /usr/local/pixelserv 

• Create file /etc/init.d/pixelserv

nano /etc/init.d/pixelserv

and copy the following to it:
Note: Change the IP addresses, and you will need net-tools installed on the system as a precursor

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/pixelserv
#

# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
   start)
     echo "Creating Interface "
     ifconfig p2p1:0 192.168.1.99
     echo "Starting pixelserv "
     /usr/local/bin/pixelserv &
     ;;
   stop)
     echo "Stopping script pixelserv"
     pkill -9 pixelserv &
     echo "Killing Interface "
     ifconfig p2p1:0 down
     ;;
   *)
     echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/pixelserv {start|stop}"
     exit 1
     ;;
esac
exit 0

• Change permissions

chmod 755 /etc/init.d/pixelserv

Enjoy ad-free network on ALL devices!