Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:06:39 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: line lengths in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20130327100639.bcdaf9cc.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5152b48c.U%2BMyuQ85COeWB4wW%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <5152b48c.U%2BMyuQ85COeWB4wW%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:57:48 -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > 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 :) Without actually havint tested this, but have you considered using the \ continuation character (linebreak escape) to avoid the problem? Also I think there's not a generic limit to the /etc/hosts file itself, but maybe to the input buffers of the programs that read this file... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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