From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: Internet History <internet-history@postel.org>,
COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>,
The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Pondering the hosts file
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 11:08:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrfKBcj3s4gW=y2bLd2nuM0nnSVMA0ZkcJ300p6szyzWw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <120EC052-FB1F-438F-985F-64E9CD82A9C1@iitbombay.org>
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:40 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> 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* <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?hosts(5)#end>
> 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 <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
> 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-11 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 17:13 [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-11 17:29 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-11 17:40 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2021-03-11 18:08 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-03-11 18:12 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Clem Cole
2021-03-11 18:21 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2021-03-11 18:21 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-03-11 20:05 ` Jan Schaumann
2021-03-11 20:30 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 20:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 21:20 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 23:46 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-12 1:15 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2021-03-12 3:27 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-11 20:44 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-03-11 21:05 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-12 5:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-03-11 21:12 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 22:33 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2021-03-11 18:27 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 18:18 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 18:02 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-11 20:32 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 21:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-11 21:08 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-12 1:14 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-03-11 21:20 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-11 18:30 Bakul Shah
2021-03-12 10:53 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
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