Subject: [PATCH] services: block-facebook-hosts: Use proper unroutable addresses.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:07:09 +0100

This is safer and more appropriate than redirecting to localhost.

* gnu/services/networking.scm (%unroutable-ipv4, %unroutable-ipv6): New
variables.
(facebook-host-aliases): Use them.

Change-Id: Idd4b1fec903c52d542d177a52fec1814eded4119
---
 gnu/services/networking.scm | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/networking.scm b/gnu/services/networking.scm
index 495d049728..8e64e529ab 100644
--- a/gnu/services/networking.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/networking.scm
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
-;;; Copyright © 2013-2023 Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2013-2024 Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2018, 2020 Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <[email-masked]>
@@ -270,6 +270,14 @@ (define-module (gnu services networking)
 ;;;
 ;;; Code:
 
+(define %unroutable-ipv4
+  ;; Unroutable address, as per <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5737>.
+  "203.0.113.1")
+
+(define %unroutable-ipv6
+  ;; Unroutable address, as per <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6666>.
+  "0100::")
+
 (define facebook-host-aliases
   ;; This is the list of known Facebook hosts to be added to /etc/hosts if you
   ;; are to block it.
@@ -282,7 +290,8 @@ (define facebook-host-aliases
     (append-map (lambda (name)
                   (map (lambda (addr)
                          (host addr name))
-                       (list "127.0.0.1" "::1"))) domains)))
+                       (list %unroutable-ipv4 %unroutable-ipv6)))
+                domains)))
 
 (define-deprecated %facebook-host-aliases
   block-facebook-hosts-service-type

base-commit: 65dc2d40cb113382fb98796f1d04099f28cab355
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2.41.0