[Dnsmasq-discuss] Using DNSMasq as a DNS sinkhole server

[Simon Kelley]

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.

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