Hi, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:09:29 +0100 Erik Nørgaard <norga...@locolomo.org> wrote:
> 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. > yes, I have hundreds or even thousands of lines and never ran into any problems. Erich _______________________________________________ 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"
