Hi Tomas,
Am 12.12.2025 um 14:49 schrieb [email protected]:
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Actually, the hosts(5) man page has this to say, under "Historical notes":
RFC 952 gave the original format for the host table, though it has
since changed.
...so there seems to be an (albeit outdated) formal spec :)
Good point, but RFC 952 describes a different network than what we have
today... natwork classes, names registered with NIC. Also, the format is
actually different.
Which doesn't matter, because it predates even the terminology
specification in RFC 2119, so we can understand any term to mean what we
like :-)
That said -- this discussion is most likely not leading anywhere, and
most particularly not where Loic wants it, I think.
Cheers,
Arno
Cheers
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Arno Lehmann
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