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From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Huge /etc/hosts files (Was Re: Backup over net)
Message-ID: <920034@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jul 89 22:02:49 GMT
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Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Palo Alto, CA
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   >unscientific) was the startup time for "vi /etc/hosts" (1.2 megabytes)
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   This is exactly why we need domain name service on hp-ux. I would think
   that you folks would at least be running it internally, by now.

We are running host tables and DNS in parallel.  DNS is in HP-UX 7.0.

wunder