<div dir="ltr">And yet it doesn't give you an indication of the file size that will make the machine unstable / resolution time per domain take forever.<br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am looking for a solution that can be implemented on a windows machine and will not change the dns resolver setup, nor can I create a local server instance in this particular case.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Irena</span><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 11:20 PM Tomas L. Byrnes <<a href="mailto:tomb@byrneit.net">tomb@byrneit.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">This site: <a href="http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/" target="_blank">http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/</a> has been providing resources to enable people to do exactly that for nearly 20 years.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> dns-operations <<a href="mailto:dns-operations-bounces@dns-oarc.net" target="_blank">dns-operations-bounces@dns-oarc.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Irena Damsky<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 14, 2019 8:33 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dns-operations@dns-oarc.net" target="_blank">dns-operations@dns-oarc.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [dns-operations] host.txt max size<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking for a quick a dirty solution for blocking malicious domains from a PC, wanted to use hosts.txt on a windows machine,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">cannot seem to find any official resources that will mention the optimal maximum size for the file size - any suggestions?<br clear="all">
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