On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 18:34 +0200, luc.linux@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > To cache your values of /etc/hosts, you can install a dns server locally > (like dnsmasq). That way, dns resolution of cached values are nearly > instantaneous, and you can have a lot of dns rules. I have an /etc/hosts > of 16M, and yet I have a really fast DNS resolution. thanks, that looks like a good solution. This is what I ended up doing: . revert /etc/hosts to local definitions . download the ad-blocker hosts file to /etc/hosts-adblock . install dnsmasq, and add to /etc/dnsmasq.conf: addn-hosts=/etc/hosts-adblock . remove "hosts" from /etc/host.conf Also, since my machine doesn't travel: . add "nohook resolv.conf" to /etc/dhcpcd.conf . put "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf . add to /etc/dnsmasq.conf no-resolv server=8.8.8.8 server=8.8.4.4 I haven't set this up on a laptop yet, but I imagine that would be more complicated because sometimes the google DNS servers will be inaccessible (e.g. hotel wifi). Using OpenDNS on port 5353 might be a good alternative. Carl
