This file will affect your business!

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Originally posted by Opti
Its already very common... but try it, anyone that wants to surf adult content will soon revert back to their original hosts file as blocking all those words makes the adult web un-useable.

It's the stuff like nortons that block the "ad" content by default, and try and make it look seamless to the surfer, that are the real worry for business.

Using the hosts file to block a few annoying hosts works okay, but surfers will see a real slowdown once the file grows too large. For the hosts file to work the resolver has to consult the hosts file before checking with a DNS server. If you have to wait for the the system to look at each line of a 170KB flat file every time a host name is resolved to an IP address your surfing will seem a lot more sluggish than without the big hosts file.