From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 08:05:39 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 B1FB016A41A for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:05:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7E4513C469 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:05:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 14126 invoked from network); 12 Dec 2007 08:05:36 -0000 Received: from adsl2.dyn234.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.234.2) by smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 12 Dec 2007 08:05:33 -0000 Message-ID: <475F9648.804@pacific.net.sg> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:05:28 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikos Vassiliadis References: <475E0190.7030909@pacific.net.sg> <475EC215.8060004@dial.pipex.com> <475F4209.8080507@pacific.net.sg> <200712120920.46626.nvass@teledomenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <200712120920.46626.nvass@teledomenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw 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 08:05:39 -0000 Hi, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 04:06:01 Erich Dollansky wrote: >>> There's no clean solutions to getting different lookups per-user that > > Both ipfw and pf support tables, which is what you I would like to avoid having a fire wall running on each machine. > Out of curiosity, how big your hosts file is? It is above 600KB since I included also the information I found on sites like this: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Since I joined my private file with this one http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt it grew to the mentioned 600KB from below 10KB. If you still see unwanted content, just add a line and it will be gone during your next visit. 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. Erich