Talk:hosts file

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hosts file

Unless I missed something this should die the same slow painful death as .htaccess file did. It's a file called "hosts", the rest is encyclopedic information. -- Pedrianaplant (talk) 21:07, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

I would say keep, providing it's correct. It may be useful for those who aren't familiar with computing terms. DonnanZ (talk) 10:25, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Unless I'm missing something hosts doesn't cover this. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:12, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

It's a file that lists hosts (see host), like how a "pictures folder" might be a folder containing pictures. However, the fact that it maps host names to IP addresses makes it possibly more than SoP. Equinox ◑ 15:54, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Does it? If I save a file in my My Documents folder with the name "hosts", does it map host names to IP addresses? By that logic .htaccess file would be idiomatic and so desktop.ini file, config.sys file, autoexec.bat file and don't even get me started. -- Pedrianaplant (talk) 20:10, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

A sysadmin would not recognise any old random file called hosts as being a "hosts file". It's not like "brown leaf". (BTW, I don't read this as "hosts" file but as hosts file. Compare help file: it's a file that contains help, not a file that is called "help".) Equinox ◑ 17:30, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Keep. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 17:20, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Kept: Purplebackpack89 21:36, 21 December 2016 (UTC)