On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:38:07 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. [snip] Thanks for an interesting read. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
