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I'm wondering whether having a huge hosts file could create any performance issues since it needs to get parsed regularly I assume.

Does anybody have experience in this regard? What about a basic version with ~100 entries?




I have like 30,000 entries in mine and there is no performance issues.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts


Thanks!


I would imagine very little, and as far as I can tell the resolver is called first and then a lookup is done in /etc/hosts, the hosts-file takes precedence.




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