Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:45:27 -0700 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any way to cache large /etc/hosts files? Message-ID: <00938E41-D041-48E6-A561-24AC721D0C42@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <c9231456-2860-5455-a921-0ff60b9a2760@rawbw.com> References: <c9231456-2860-5455-a921-0ff60b9a2760@rawbw.com>
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Hi, Yuri-- Take a look into DNS RPZ, aka DNS blacklisting (the common use case): https://dnsrpz.info <https://dnsrpz.info/>; Recent versions of ISC BIND support this.... Regards, --=20 -Chuck On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > Some people suggest using pre-compiled lists of ad and malware domains = and block them on DNS level. (ex. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts) >=20 > The resulting hosts file is about 1MB. nscd(8) caches DNS results, but = it does this on name by name basis. Every new domain name request, even = within the same process, causes /etc/hosts file to be reread again. >=20 >=20 > Is there a way to cache /etc/hosts once and use it? >=20 >=20 > Yuri >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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