system-config-network broken?

Marc Williams marcw at onlymooo.com
Thu Jul 8 01:21:40 UTC 2004


On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:04:11 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 20:12, Marc Williams wrote:
>> Thanks, but I found a different solution.  As it turns out,
>> system-config-network was choking on the size of my hosts file - 800k. I
>> guess it doesn't like 'em that big.  When I temporarily gave it a normal
>> hosts file, it handled it just fine.  Then I moved my big one back in
>> place.

> How many entries do you have in that host file?

About 26,000.  All of them (except my local entries, of course) point to
127.0.0.1. They're advertising, popup, and banner sites.  Makes my
browsing faster by an order of magnitude.  I found it at
http://webpages.charter.net/hpguru/hosts/hosts.html .  I like it.






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