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From: sartin@hplabsz.HP.COM (Rob Sartin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP E-Mail Questions
Message-ID: <6487@hplabsz.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 91 02:32:24 GMT
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Reply-To: sartin@cup.hp.com (Rob Sartin)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Open Systems Software Division
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>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

Not only that, but we do use our nameservers.  Not everyone within HP
has upgraded and we still produce an internal /etc/hosts file for
machines running versions of OSes without nameserver support or not
using nameservers for other reasons.

Disclaimers:

If HP had a net.spokesperson, it wouldn't be me.

I don't have anything to do (anymore) with our nameservers or /etc/hosts.

Rob