Neil, For what it's worth, I used the 'local=/FQDN/' format (no IP addr specified) for around 800k entries. This makes dnsmasq grow about 100MiB when running. It still starts up fast, and there is a very small but measurable increase in resolution time. But it works very well (for me) to block ads, pron, warez, and other undesirable hosts. (When I find the time, I'll figure out how to add the 100k IP addrs in the blocklists I use to a netfilter ipset to block them as well.)
I can't answer the question concerning systemd or the one about internationalized FQDNs. Neal On Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:32:57 +0100 Neil Darlow via Dnsmasq-discuss <dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Dnsmasq successfully to manage DNS and DHCP for my home > services for a while now and I thank you for this excellent piece of > software. > > I'm now seeking to implement an Ad-blocking solution using Dnsmasq and > have seen various methods available: > 1) The address= format > 2) The server= format > 3) The conventional /etc/hosts format > > In exploring these methods I find that (1) is quite inefficient, (2) > seems to prevent Dnsmasq starting under Systemd with a large number of > entries and (3) seems viable except for one issue. > > The /etc/hosts format seems to complain about Punycode/IDN formatted > hostnames to the extent that a large number of them floods the systemd > journal. I get the impression that resolution does work for those > entries though. > > What are people's thoughts on using Dnsmasq in this role and can these > "bad name" errors for internationalized hostnames in addn-hosts= be > mitigated/eliminated somehow? > > For reference, I am using dnsmasq-2.86 on archlinuxARM and it is built > with libidn2 support. > > TIA, > Neil Darlow > > _______________________________________________ > Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list > Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
