Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:27:02 -0500 From: Mike Irwin <mdi@foobox.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ad banner hack Message-ID: <20020326222702.C11556@foo.bar> In-Reply-To: <20020326134425.G7941@sjt-u10.cisco.com>; from sjt@cisco.com on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 01:44:25PM -0500 References: <20020326134425.G7941@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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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
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