I was having a problem when restarting a Windows 2000 pro machine and
Windows xp pro on a windows 2000 server AD domain.  When i restarted
the computers and the "preparing network connections " loaded up it
seem to hang for a few minutes.  It turned out to be all the crap i
was trying to block in my host file (\system32\drivers\etc\host). I
got the list from this site and copied it through out my network
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm . When i removed it and only
added the few things that needed naming, it cut the time down
dramatically.  I administer my own AD network but i do not have access
to our firewall.  I am wondering if there is another way through my
DNS server to redirect all these bad sites that i dont want our users
to access without having a firewall?  We recently upgraded our entire
network to use Cisco routers and I am pretty sure these are our DHCP
servers and have the appropriate gateway info to access our internet
router.  prior to this upgrade, we had switches that ran to all these
building through the city through fiber, and our default gateway was
our internet router in a main building.  now all our buildings are
segmented and the ciscos are our default gateway for each segment. All
my clients on my network are setup to only access my dns servers? will
i be able to do block these sites?
Thanks for the info
Jason