From: boogabooga@crazyhat.net   
      
   In the last episode of <4F41CB35.1BB5675A@Guy.com>, Some Guy   
    said:   
      
   >DevilsPGD wrote:   
   >   
   >> > Who do you think would want traffic from le100.net or the multiple   
   >> > EC2 amazon accounts that keep knocking for months every 10 seconds   
   >>   
   >> I don't know what sort of traffic that might be. For all I know,   
   >> those le100.net packets might be useful.   
   >   
   >Trust me.   
   >   
   >They are not useful.   
   >   
   >Put this in your hosts file and they will go away:   
   >   
   >127.0.0.1  ajax.googleapis.com   
   >   
   >You won't find much on the web about what they're supposed to do.   
   >Google hides the ownership of that domain by assigning it to   
   >Markmonitor.   
      
   That would seem to be spectacularly dumb. That particularly hostname is   
   used to serve a fair chunk of AJAX content used by third party sites,   
   it's basically providing free (and highly cachable) CDN services for   
   commonly used AJAX libraries like JQuery. Blocking it will break a ton   
   of random sites for absolutely no reason.   
      
   As far as "hides ownership", if you consider that hidden, I've got a   
   bridge for sale.   
      
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