I'm pretty sure this is inaccurate. lookupd caches hosts data, and fs_usage doesn't show a hit to /etc/hosts while a browser loads a site I've never been to before.

I'm sure it reads the hosts file into cache regularly, but I'd be shocked to find out it did it every time I went to resolve a domain name, especially without seeing the file access in fs_usage's output. Anyone got more info on this?



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On Jul 25, 2005, at 15:02, Ruurd Koons wrote:

the number of hosts in there, however, *does* matter. The more you have in there the slower your system becomes on dns lookups, as there is no index for this file, and a sequential scan is being performed on it every time you do a dns lookup.

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