Bind mount (link) SFOS-file-system /system/etc/hosts into the Aliendalvik lxc container

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#1

Hi @Jolla,

only now I got reminded that the “Android hosts file” /system/etc/hosts" in the SFOS native file system does not get bind mounted into the aliendalvik container.
So any efforts to get some IP blocking done are going to /dev/null for Android applications in a new SFOS install. One would need to manually edit /var/lib/lxc/aliendalvik/extra_config with
lxc.mount.entry = /etc/hosts system/etc/hosts none bind,ro 0 0

I got reminded here by @sigurg. Pointing to the (information cluttered environment of TJC) besides FSO.

Harbour-defender relied on that modification (done so long ago by me manually I forgot about it).
And as well all other people trying to add some blocking to the Android side.

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#2

Since Android support is at version 10, would it be beneficial to edit DNS to a private one like dns.adguard.com, perhaps?

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#3

You mean similar to this?

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#4

Yeah, that’s what I meant. It seems to work well when it comes to blocking ads in Android.