/usr/hosts

[John M. Sellens]

In article <33 at vlsi.waterloo.edu> peregier at vlsi.waterloo.edu (Phil Regier) writes:
>Is it just
>there so that users can put it in their path and thus be able to use
>the machine name as an alias for rsh/rlogin commands

I think that's the only reason.  Kind of silly when you have a large
number of hosts around:
  % decomment </etc/hosts | wc -l
  550
I've always felt that if a user finds
  % rsh machine
that much harder to type than
  % machine
then the best thing is for them to make aliases for their favorite machines.