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I've always wondered if Windows or other operative systems read the entire hosts file everytime they want to resolve an address. Maybe a big hosts file is bad f
by tropin 11y ago
I've always wondered if Windows or other operative systems read the entire hosts file everytime they want to resolve an address. Maybe a big hosts file is bad for network performance?
- dsr_ 11y agoIt will largely be read out of memory, since it doesn't change much and is frequently requested. Scanning 64K or so won't break a sweat compared to doing a DNS lookup across the network to a resolver that might itself need to make a request.