<![CDATA[Limit to number of entries in DNS forwarder?]]>I seem to have hit a limit to the number of entries I can add to the "Host Override" section of the DNS forwarder.

If I put too many entries in there (in the region of 25-30 but I think it's more a character limit than a row limit) then the entries in "/var/etc/hosts" seem to get truncated (often mid-row, hence my guess on character limit) and obviously dns resolution doesn't work for ones that are missing/corrupt.

Has anyone else seen the same issue?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/61951/limit-to-number-of-entries-in-dns-forwarderRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 11:14:46 GMTMon, 21 Oct 2013 16:03:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Limit to number of entries in DNS forwarder? on Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:19:08 GMT]]>Seems that I've found the solution to this problem.. Or unless it is working for me for some time without a problem.

  • Go to "Services: DNS forwarder".

  • Uncheck: "Register DHCP leases in DNS forwarder"

  • Save & Apply

  • Uncheck: "Register DHCP static mappings in DNS forwarder"

  • Save & Apply

  • Re-enable the above and Save & Apply in reverse order

I'll still checking, but unless now I've my host list complete and without a reboot.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/439670https://forum.netgate.com/post/439670Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:19:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Limit to number of entries in DNS forwarder? on Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:10:02 GMT]]>Same problem here.
Reboot solves the problem but I rather not do it every time I add a host  ;)

There is also an error in the logs files for this file:
"dhcpleases: /var/etc/hosts changed size from original!"

I run version:2.1-RELEASE (i386)
built on Wed Sep 11 18:16:44 EDT 2013
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/429431https://forum.netgate.com/post/429431Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:10:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Limit to number of entries in DNS forwarder? on Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:26:55 GMT]]>Any news on that?
It seems that I hit the same problem today. After adding a new entries the latest ones in a list has disappeared from /etc/hosts, but the entries still appear on the configuration web page.

Regards,
      Andres

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/428503https://forum.netgate.com/post/428503Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:26:55 GMT