[CentOS] el7: Thunderbird?

Sun Jul 20 14:18:33 UTC 2014
Chris Pemberton <cjpembo at gmail.com>

On 07/19/2014 05:30 AM, g wrote:
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> On 07/19/2014 06:25 PM, Chris Pemberton wrote:
> <<>>
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>> 2.  I install a custom hosts file ( http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
>> ).  This protects all applications in one swoop, not just the browser.
> or so it is claimed.
>
> i saw post about it. pulled it. backed up my custom list. added
> custom list to it. copied it to new name. fired up wireshark. fired
> up firefox. surfed 10 sites. wireshark show it did not work. deleted
> it and temp file. re installed my list.
>
>
To test, I added the following to the long list:

127.0.0.1 google.com

I was then unable to ping or browse to google.com; but www.google.com 
worked just fine.  Anyone know if you place wildcards in /etc/hosts?  
Something like:

*google.com

Chris