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From: cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP E-Mail Questions
Message-ID: <1670011@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jan 91 02:54:48 GMT
References: <1991Jan19.071326.5915@cerritos.edu>
Organization: the Mosthamster's Desk, Internet Engineering
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    >     I wasn't aware of the size magnitude of HP's internal internet,
    > until I did a:
    > 	grep '^15' /etc/hosts | sort | uniq | wc
    > (HP's IP addresses start with "15".)
    >     There are over 39,000 (thirty-nine *thousand*) hosts.  However,
    > some of these are PC's connected to the lan.

    Mmm, does this mean that all 39,000 hosts have 39,000 entries in their
    /etc/hosts files?  I thought that was what nameservers were invented
    for..;-)

That's right.  That's why we have what I believe is the broadest second-
level namespace on the ARPA Internet.

And, admittedly, some pretty large host tables.

cricket

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