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=== Updating ITS' host table ===

ITS was used mostly in the era before DNS, when a hosts.txt file was regularly distributed to all Arpanet hosts.  If you want to add a new host and its IP number, you have to update ITS' host table.

ITS' human readable host table is in the file ''SYSHST; H3TEXT >''.  You update it with a regular text editor.  To add a new host, enter a line like ''HOST : A.B.C.D : NAME : MACHINE : OS : :''.  A.B.C.D is the IP number, and NAME is the hostname.  MACHINE and OS are free text descriptions.

Having done this, you have to update the binary host table ''SYSBIN; HOSTS3 >'' which is what programs actually use to look up host names.  To update this from the text file, just run '':SYSHST;H3MAKE''.

its_hosts.txt · Last modified: 2020/05/15 15:18 by lars

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