RE: banned sites lists!

From: Steve Drees (drees@rangebroadband.com)
Date: 05/30/02 

From: "Steve Drees" <drees@rangebroadband.com>
To: "Chisholm Wildermuth" <cwildermuth@dbwebnet.net>, "BRAD GRIFFIN" <b.griffin@cqu.edu.au>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:19:25 -0500

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying ("listing is used
> so that folks
> can modify their hosts file")....but I _WOULD NOT EVER_ put
> anything with one
> thousand one hundred and ninety eight lines as my host file. MS even
> recommends you not use the template host file with comments
> because that's an
> extra 20 lines that the OS must sift through before getting to the good
> stuff. Can you imagine the latency of windows having to go through that
> many lines (13,198) of a host file before it decides it needs to
> go out to a
> DNS server and look something up??

Local I/O is still several orders of magnitude faster than the average users
internet connection.

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