Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:31:20 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Erik =?UTF-8?B?TsO4cmdhYXJk?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20130327163120.6877eeee@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <ED2CBF8D-7910-4121-8B16-D1D30C2165E2@locolomo.org> References: <5152b48c.U%2BMyuQ85COeWB4wW%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <ED2CBF8D-7910-4121-8B16-D1D30C2165E2@locolomo.org>
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Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik N=C3=B8rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wrote: > On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) > wrote: >=20 > > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > To answer the inevitable followup "why would anyone need such > > a long line in /etc/hosts": > >=20 > > With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf > >=20 > > hosts: files dns > >=20 > > I can easily suppress access to unwanted web sites by adding > > names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, like this: > >=20 > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain bad1.com bad2.com ... > >=20 > > My version of that line has gotten rather long :) >=20 > AFAIK you can have multiple lines.=20 >=20 yes, I have hundreds or even thousands of lines and never ran into any problems. Erich
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