On 27 Mar 2013, at 09:57, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: > Is there a limit on line length in FreeBSD's /etc/hosts? > > I'm not finding any mention of such a limit in hosts(5), but > characters beyond the first 660 or so seem to be ignored. > > To answer the inevitable followup "why would anyone need such > a long line in /etc/hosts": > > With this line in /etc/nsswitch.conf > > hosts: files dns > > 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 :)
AFAIK you can have multiple lines. BR _______________________________________________ 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"
