> Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying ("listing is used
> so that folks
> can modify their hosts file")....but I _WOULD NOT EVER_ put
> anything with one
> thousand one hundred and ninety eight lines as my host file. MS even
> recommends you not use the template host file with comments
> because that's an
> extra 20 lines that the OS must sift through before getting to the good
> stuff. Can you imagine the latency of windows having to go through that
> many lines (13,198) of a host file before it decides it needs to
> go out to a
> DNS server and look something up??
Local I/O is still several orders of magnitude faster than the average users
internet connection.
