On 03/04/14 20:27, Egil Aspevik Martinsen wrote: > Hi, I want to setup my Raspberry PI as a DNS sinkhole server using > DNSMASQ. Does anyone have experience with using DNSMASQ for this > purpose? The DNS sinkhole lists are relatively large (currently the > list from www[DOT]malware-domains[DOT]com contains about 18000 > domains), and my first suspicion was that this might be too big for > DNSMASQ to tackle, at least on a raspberry pi. Thanks! BR, Egil > Aspevik
Assuming that you're putting the domains in /etc/hosts or equivalent, then this application was tuned for long ago, and it should be fast. You will need quite a lot of memory, but "quite a lot of memory" is soomething that evolves over time. I thing there may be an entry about this in the FAQ. Cheers, Simon. > > > > _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss > mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk > http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss > _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss