[Dnsmasq-discuss] maximum number of "address" lines

[Simon Kelley]

Philippe Faure wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I run a script that takes URLs that display adds, and point them to an 
> un-used Local IP address. for example: 
> address="/123banners.com/192.168.0.35"
> 
> All of these addresses are in one file which DNSMASQ reads at startup. 
>  I have noticed that the number of addresses in this file is now really 
> large. About 17000 redirections.
> 
> I have tried to start dnsmasq and it comes back with an error on line 
> 13910. There was nothing different about line 13910, and 13909, except 
> for the different url.
> 
> I was wondering if DNSMASQ had an internal limit of the number of 
> redirects, or the size of input files, or anything else that would cause 
> a problem?

There's no internal limit. Note that performance will be much worse than 
with lines in /etc/hosts, so if you don't need the implied wildcard in 
address=/domain/ lines and you have lots and lots of them, /etc/hosts is 
a better place to put them.

> 
> Here is what I found in syslog:
> Nov 26 00:01:33 philserver dnsmasq[22070]: error at line 13910 of 
> /etc/hosts_to_block
> Nov 26 00:01:33 philserver dnsmasq[22070]: FAILED to start up

The only syntax problem that's not blindingly obvious would be an 
illegal character in the the domain: the legal ones are
A-Z a-z 0-9 - / _

> 
> There was nothing in dnsmasq.log file.

That's expected: logging doesn't go there until after the configuration 
has been read.

Cheers,

Simon.


> 
> Philippe
> 
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