22 Mar
2017
22 Mar
'17
9:50 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:38:07 +1030 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Way back in the past, I used to do that kind of thing, but found that my PCs struggled with moderately large hosts files, never mind one that big. It made all domain name look-ups slow, as it everything had to trawl through that hosts file, first.
Whether that's still an issue, I don't know. But, instead, I ended up doing the same thing with my local DNS server, instead, it offloaded the burden to a central point, to software that was designed to be good at DNS resolutions. So one thing in my LAN takes care of all my computers.
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Thanks for an interesting read.