From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 09:16:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00C016A41B for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: from smtp.teledomenet.gr (smtp.teledomenet.gr [213.142.128.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B02B13C4EA for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvass@teledomenet.gr) Received: by smtp.teledomenet.gr (Postfix, from userid 58) id 8769E1422C3; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:16:21 +0200 (EET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on smtp.teledomenet.gr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, BODY_ENHANCEMENT autolearn=no version=3.2.3 Received: from iris (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by smtp.teledomenet.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15FD7142242; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:16:15 +0200 (EET) From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: Erich Dollansky Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:18:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <475E0190.7030909@pacific.net.sg> <200712120920.46626.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <475F9648.804@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <475F9648.804@pacific.net.sg> X-NCC-RegID: gr.telehouse MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712121118.53090.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: performance impact of large /etc/hosts files X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:16:22 -0000 On Wednesday 12 December 2007 10:05:28 Erich Dollansky wrote: > The beauty is, Internet feels still faster then before. > > It has one advantage over all those ad removal tools. It filters what I > do not like. It has nothing to do with censorship, it just gets rid of > all the crap hanging around on every corner of a web page trying to sell > you anti virus software or larger dicks. I'll give it a try. It may be helpful for my lossy-56Kbps-modem internet-experience at home! Nikos