12 Mar
2021
12 Mar
'21
12:08 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:40 AM Bakul Shah <bakul(a)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(a)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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