On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:38:07 +1030
Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Way back in the past, I used to do that kind of thing, but found
that
my PCs struggled with moderately large hosts files, never mind one
that big. It made all domain name look-ups slow, as it everything
had to trawl through that hosts file, first.
Whether that's still an issue, I don't know. But, instead, I ended up
doing the same thing with my local DNS server, instead, it offloaded
the burden to a central point, to software that was designed to be
good at DNS resolutions. So one thing in my LAN takes care of all my
computers.
[snip]
Thanks for an interesting read.