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From: garys@hpfcso.HP.COM (Gary Stringham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP E-Mail Questions
Message-ID: <7370288@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 91 19:04:08 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.071326.5915@cerritos.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>	grep '^15' /etc/hosts | sort | uniq | wc

>      There are over 39,000 (thirty-nine *thousand*) hosts.  However,
> some of these are PC's connected to the lan.

Not all of HP's machines are listed in the /etc/hosts file.  We have
some that we use in manufacturing that we have not put in /etc/hosts for
one reason or another but are accessable by a few machines that do know
about them.

Gary "telnet to hpa, then to hpb, then to hpc for the data." Stringham