Talk:Null route

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>Can someone please put here how to create a null route on Windows using the route.exe >command? Bryan 04:00, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Bryan, it's been a long time since you asked that question, but the easiest way to do this in windows is via the host file at %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. If you're looking to do this network wide, it is easier to do via firewalls and other network devices.

As far as the intent of the discussion of this page. Moving this topic into "blackholing" is a mistake as it is as problematic as the over use of the word "black hole", which should IMHO be renamed community wide to DNS redirection as that is what is happening.

Providing this type of routing information within that context is absolutely inappropriate, and not where a technician should be looking if he is interested in DNS redirection. This is a way to drop unwanted packets at an administrator's requirement, really something that should be placed into routing if it belongs anyplace, or perhaps this whole discussion should be expanded to include other security techniques realated to routing. Like I said, IMHO. Guy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Allgoodguy (talk • contribs)

The method you explained is not actually null routing, rather just a DNS hack. Routes can be added in Windows using the 'route' command line tool, but I am not sure what's the "proper" way to define a null route. Note that routing table entries do not persist through reboots. -- intgr [talk] 16:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)