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From: mcguire@math.uiowa.edu (Charlie McGuire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: TCP Hostname Resolving/10.2
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Date: 2 Nov 90 21:12:24 GMT
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In article <9011021558.AA09019@umix.cc.umich.edu>,
SRFERGU%ERENJ@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Scott Ferguson) writes:
|> 
|> Thanks for everyone's help on my question about resolving hostnames.
|> By deleting the files /etc/hosts.dir and /etc/hosts.pag, my problems
|> immediately went away. Of course, I don't know where those files come from,
|> I guess some daemon will regenerate them along the line if it needs them.

The hosts.dir and hosts.pag files are hashed versions of the host file that you
explicitly create with the mkhosts command. If your host table is very large,
the hashed versions will speed up lookups. If your table isn't very long, 
don't worry about it.


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