[ih] how big was the host file

[vinton cerf]

there was provision for up to 4 hosts per IMP and we even had a "port
extender" for IP addresses as TCP/IP rolled out. So I don't think 64 was
the limit.

v


On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 7:10 AM John Day via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Why was it so large?
>
> There certainly weren’t 134 hosts on the ’Net in 1973.  Wasn’t the maximum
> number then still 64?
>
> John
>
> > On Feb 6, 2020, at 03:28, Lars Brinkhoff via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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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