[ih] how big was the host file

• Subject: [ih] how big was the host file
• From: lars at nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
• Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 08:28:29 +0000
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (Jacques Latour via Internet-history's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2020 20:33:46 +0000")
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Jacques Latour wrote:
> How big was the host file before the DNS came in action? 200K entries?

I'd like to go in the other direction.  What are the smallest recorded
hosts files?

An MIT hosts file from 1973 was 134 lines.

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