On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:40 AM Bakul Shah wrote: > From https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hosts(5) > > For each host a single line should be present with the following information: > > Internet address > official host name > aliases > > *HISTORY* > The *hosts* file format appeared in 4.2BSD. > > While this is true wrt the history of FreeBSD/Unix, I'm almost positive that BSD didn't invent it. I'm pretty sure it was picked up from the existing host file that was published by sri-nic.arpa before DNS. Warner > On Mar 11, 2021, at 9:14 AM, Grant Taylor via TUHS > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm not sure where this message best fits; TUHS, COFF, or Internet > History, so please forgive me if this list is not the best location. > > I'm discussing the hosts file with someone and was wondering if there's > any historical documentation around it's format and what should and should > not be entered in the file. > > I've read the current man page on Gentoo Linux, but suspect that it's far > from authoritative. I'm hoping that someone can point me to something more > authoritative to the hosts file's format, guidelines around entering data, > and how it's supposed to function. > > A couple of sticking points in the other discussion revolve around how > many entries a host is supposed to have in the hosts file and any > ramifications for having a host appear as an alias on multiple lines / > entries. To whit, how correct / incorrect is the following: > > 192.0.2.1 host.example.net host > 127.0.0.1 localhost host.example.net host > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: