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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:28:33 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com>
Cc:        Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com>, Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Blocking undesirable domains using BIND
Message-ID:  <47790AA1.8010109@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750712301544q16eee11bt82cdcee0cf153afb@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <26ddd1750712271246j14795cf3wf8e9727f0f7cc148@mail.gmail.com>	<47744048.6020202@daleco.biz> <47752446.8090908@gmail.com>	<26ddd1750712300852p5835e094nf20f85a9f8e0356d@mail.gmail.com>	<839aec700712300931l18d892dak3fe16175405fa65f@mail.gmail.com> <26ddd1750712301544q16eee11bt82cdcee0cf153afb@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,

Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2007 12:31 PM, Darren Spruell <phatbuckett@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 30, 2007 9:52 AM, Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> wrote:

> I then installed dnsmasq, which is able to read domain info from the
> hosts file. Just for the fun of it, I loaded domains from all the
> sources I've gathered into a separate hosts file - a total of 155,150
> entries. Dnsmasq loaded that file and has been running for several
> minutes now. It's currently taking up a total of 17MB! Now granted, it
> doesn't need to deal with whole zone files, but this still goes to
> show the level of efficiency that can be achieved in theory even with
> this many entries.

this sounds like a perfect solution for me too. I will have to try this 
next year.

Erich



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