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Originally Posted by galneon
I updated my jailbroken Voyage to 5.12.0 (or something late in the 5.11.x series) before it was known, or widely known, that the usual method of blocking updates had been deprecated. Several weeks later, I was automatically updated to 5.12.1 to my surprise. The hotfix worked and I'm still jailbroken, but my Voyage never leaves airplane mode now and I miss Wikipedia lookups a bit. :/
I apologize if I've overlooked something here, but is there a new method for blocking updates yet? I've read of the speculative less than 200 MB free fix, but this is less than appealing for a few reasons. I'm used to blocking updates in hosts at the router level for gaming consoles and other things I don't want updating themselves, but I'm concerned the Kindle might not bother with hostname resolution and connects directly to a specific IP. That's not a very practical method for most auto-updaters, but a corporation the size of Amazon can hold a static as long as it wants... I'm not willing to risk my jailbreak as the screen savers plugin is a must for me--the Amazon screensavers are revolting. None of those images translate well to eink. For me, it's cover mode or another brand of reader.
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I wrote a KUAL add-in called BBB (Block Big Brother).
It drops any IPv4 address assigned to Amazon.
It has not been updated since I posted it, but this is only IPv4, whose allocations where assigned years ago, there are no "new" IPv4 addresses to be had.
Well, there is still some traffic (no pun intended) in IPv4 blocks, like when some company goes bust and another company wants these blocks for their own use.
Translation:
Although written a number of years ago, the block assignments will rarely change.
And of course, the Linux network scripts are all in "user space" (like a KUAL add-in config - which they are).
And, there is documentation plus the existing script entries as examples if someone needs to remove an address range or add another address range. (perhaps for your use).
I do not have the slightest idea of the link to where I posted it.
I only write this stuff, not keep track of it.
