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/etc/hosts (History (There was no method for ensuring that all references…
/etc/hosts
History
There was no method for ensuring that all references to a given node in a network were using the same name
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On some old systems a file named networks is present that has similar to hosts file functions containing names of networks
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Applications
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Software piracy
Some pirated versions of software rely on a modified hosts file to prevent software from contacting the activation servers of the publisher
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HOSTS.TXT
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Originally this file was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership
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In modern operating systems, the hosts file remains an alternative name resolution mechanism