[comp.sys.hp] Huge /etc/hosts files

milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (07/28/89)

In article <63300007@hpl-opus.HP.COM> jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM(Bob Jewett) writes:

>unscientific) was the startup time for "vi /etc/hosts" (1.2 megabytes) on the
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is exactly why we need domain name service on hp-ux. I would think
that you folks would at least be running it internally, by now.

-jem

wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (07/29/89)

   >unscientific) was the startup time for "vi /etc/hosts" (1.2 megabytes)
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   This is exactly why we need domain name service on hp-ux. I would think
   that you folks would at least be running it internally, by now.

We are running host tables and DNS in parallel.  DNS is in HP-UX 7.0.

wunder

kim@kannel.lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (08/01/89)

In article <920034@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM> wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) writes:

   From: wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
   Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
   Date: 28 Jul 89 22:02:49 GMT
   References: <3120@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
   Organization: HP SW Engineering Systems - Palo Alto, CA
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   We are running host tables and DNS in parallel.  DNS is in HP-UX 7.0.
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^
   wunder

I wonder when that will be available in Europe?

Kim
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joseph@hpuplca.HP.COM ( Joseph Hohl ) (08/04/89)

> In article <63300007@hpl-opus.HP.COM> jewett@hpl-opus.HP.COM(Bob Jewett) write

>> unscientific) was the startup time for "vi /etc/hosts" (1.2 megabytes) on the
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is exactly why we need domain name service on hp-ux. I would think
> that you folks would at least be running it internally, by now.

> -jem

John,

We do have it running internally and it will be included in the HP-UX
7.0 release (both S-300 and S-800s). 

Joseph