Re: Reverse Lookup on a local HOST file

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From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:14:22 -0700

"Jonathan de Boyne Pollard" <J.deBoynePollard@Tesco.NET> wrote in message
news:40D4180F.DE5C3773@Tesco.NET...
> PN> The local HOST file is used to map an IP address to host...
> PN> How would I create a reverse lookup file...?
>
> Actually, the "/etc/hosts" file on Unix systems, which this Windows
mechanism
> apes, is used for both name->address and address->name mappings. It's
> probably the same on Windows, although I have no great incentive to check.
>
> However, this is a newsgroup for people with DNS servers. If you have a
DNS
> server, then there's little point in mucking around with "HOSTS" files.
After
> all, eliminating the need for a "HOSTS" file that was copied around a lot
is
> one of the reasons that the DNS was invented in the first place, back in
the
> 1980s.

And ftp'ing the master host file from UCB was an invention
that the fledgling Unix also adopted (and "aped" every since). 

-- 
Roger

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