[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 13:40:33 +0000
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (John Day's message of "Thu, 6 Feb 2020 07:10:41 -0500")
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John Day wrote:
> Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>> An MIT hosts file from 1973 was 134 lines.
> Why was it so large?
>
> There certainly weren?t 134 hosts on the ?Net in 1973.  Wasn?t the
> maximum number then still 64?

Sorry, I see now the file has two lists.  The first list is in
alphabetical order, and the second is in numerical-ish order.

There are 66 unique host numbers, of which 14 are TIPs.

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