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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Host tables with Clarkson packet drivers]
Keywords: KA9Q, NCSA Telnet
Message-ID: <18662@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 28 Dec 89 08:07:06 GMT
References: <634@fred.UUCP> <8912261438.AA00181@vax.ftp.com> <121@van-bc.UUCP>
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Reply-To: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Organization: Secular Humanists for No-Code
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In article <121@van-bc.UUCP> skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam) writes:
>Both KA9Q (pre-NOS and NOS version) and NCSA Telnet support static hosts
>tables in a format similar (but not identical) to /etc/hosts.

My "pre NOS" version supports a hosts.txt file, with format identical to the
BSD UNIX /etc/hosts file. The NOS version gets rid of hosts.txt in favor of
domain.txt, which is used to cache entries in standard domain name database
format. You "seed" it with entries for your own machine and any others you
need to get started, then additional entries are automatically appended as
they arrive from a domain name server.

Phil