On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Alex Winbow wrote:
> DNS. It seems like /etc/hosts is really an anachronism from the olden days
> of yore, when DNS wasn't nearly as universal.
> 

hosts is still used to set up the NIS maps, used for NFS, system wide
authentication, etc.


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