[ih] how big was the host file

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Thu Feb 6 05:40:33 PST 2020


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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