Reverting the target host back to 0.0.0.0.

diff --git a/readme_template.md b/readme_template.md
index 2fd0ef340207b6cd7b118125a3ea6a4581f440bc..e1328eb6f9e869b004cf4b9b56d8ff80247b0364 100644 (file)
--- a/readme_template.md
+++ b/readme_template.md
@@ -47,8 +47,12 @@ For example, to nullify requests to some doubleclick.net servers, adding these l
     # etc...
 
 
-## Why use `0` instead of `0.0.0.0` or `127.0.0.1`?
-See [here](http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16790135-Large-Hosts-file-0-0-0-0-or-127-0-0-1) and [here](http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r24621780-hosts-127-0-0-1-vs-0-0-0-0).  Turns out using just `0` increases parsing speed, and it makes the hosts file smaller.
+## Why use `0.0.0.0` instead of `127.0.0.1`?
+Using `0.0.0.0` is faster.
+
+## Why not use just `0` instead of `0.0.0.0`?
+We tried that.  Using `0` doesn't work universally.
+
 
 ## Location of your hosts file
 To modify your current `hosts` file, look for it in the following places and modify it with a text editor.

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index 82e151d51507e3b71a786753390a783cb27096aa..88ab00641d464858b22e9cdb704468d6bd0889de 100644 (file)
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ UPDATE_URL_FILENAME = 'update.info'
 SOURCES = os.listdir(DATA_PATH)
 README_TEMPLATE = BASEDIR_PATH + '/readme_template.md'
 README_FILE = BASEDIR_PATH + '/readme.md'
-TARGET_HOST = '0'
+TARGET_HOST = '0.0.0.0'
 
 # Exclusions
 EXCLUSION_PATTERN = '([a-zA-Z\d-]+\.){0,}' #append domain the end