On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:05:34 -0400, 98 Guy put finger to
keyboard and composed:

And even more - any host that you access frequently you can "hard-code"
it's IP address in your hosts file - giving you ultra-fast DNS lookups.

Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't this slow down your browser?

For example, let's assume that a particular page at seagate.com
contains an offsite reference to nexus.ensighten.com. If the hosts
file contains "nexus.ensighten.com", then AFAICS the browser does not
need to bother with a DNS lookup. OTOH, if the hosts file contains
only numeric IP addresses, then a DNS lookup would be necessary to
resolve the domain name.

- Franc Zabkar
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