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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
