From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 19:23:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prserv.net (out4.prserv.net [32.97.166.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05C037B400 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:23:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from foo.bar (slip-12-65-36-201.mis.prserv.net[12.65.36.201]) by prserv.net (out4) with ESMTP id <2002032703234720406caeqve>; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:23:48 +0000 Received: (from mikeirw@localhost) by foo.bar (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2R3R3h14652 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:27:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikeirw) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:27:02 -0500 From: Mike Irwin To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: ad banner hack Message-ID: <20020326222702.C11556@foo.bar> References: <20020326134425.G7941@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020326134425.G7941@sjt-u10.cisco.com>; from sjt@cisco.com on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:44:25PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Tremblett wrote: > I've just been adding aliases to 127.0.0.1 for ad banner servers and it > has been working well for me, but I'm just curious if I might reach a > point where I break this. How many aliases can one IP address have? > This is just a workstation which uses DNS for everything else, but will > this still work once I have 200 aliases for one address? AFAIK, you can have as many as you'd like. I've played around with it, and once had over a thousand aliases in there. Everything still worked fine for me. You may find this site interesting: http://smartin-designs.com/. He maintains a HUGE list of ad banner servers to block, and provides them in a zipped text file for you to download and use in your /etc/hosts file. -- Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message