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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Host tables with Clarkson packet drivers]
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Date: 26 Dec 89 14:38:56 GMT
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   Date: 22 Dec 89 21:51:58 GMT
   From: Bill Poitras <polygen!bill@cs.bu.edu>
   Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA

	   Besides through domain name servers, is there another way to specify
   the IP address of a host.  Is there a way to point the packet driver to 
   a table similar to an /etc/hosts file. ....

This is not a matter for the Packet Driver.  It is a MAC-layer construct,
and doesn't have any mandate for high-level items like name-to-address
translation.

What you need to do depends on the trade-off between time and money.  If
you have lots of time and no money, take the freeware TCP/IP you're using
and hack a host table parser into its name resolver (in PC-IP, look at
SRCLIB\NAMERES).  Alternatively, switch to another freeware package that
already has it, if there is one (KA9Q might, I don't think NCSA does).
If you have money and no time, buy a commercial product that already has
support for a host table (I know our PC/TCP, Sun's PC-NFS and NRC's
Fusion for DOS have host tables, I think TWG's WIN/PC does, I don't know
about Beame & Whiteside's or 3Com's).

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