The SRI file was different format. There was a tool that fetched and converted from the PDP-10 scheme to the UNIX scheme - gethtable(8) or something like that. ᐧ ᐧ On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:08 PM Warner Losh wrote: > > > 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: