Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: line lengths in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <5152b48c.U%2BMyuQ85COeWB4wW%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. To answer the inevitable followup "why would anyone need such a long line in /etc/hosts": With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... My version of that line has gotten rather long :)
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