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FTP ANU Hosts Listing

A list of the ANU hosts in the format used for Unix machines is available via anonymous ftp from netcomms.anu.edu.au in the file "pub/dns/hosts". The source from which the ANU nameserver records are built is in the file "pub/dns/dns.src".

If you are providing a local list of hosts, you need to download them to your /etc/hosts file regularly, preferably using a 'cron' job similar to the following :

#
# MAKE COPY OF OLD HOSTS FILE:
cd /etc
cp hosts hosts.old

#
# grab new hosts file from anon ftp 
# on netcomms.anu.edu.au
#

ftp -in netcomms.anu.edu.au
user ftp firstname.lastname@anu.edu.au
get pub/dns/hosts hosts

# Now remake the yp map for hosts if necessary