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hosts

n. (plural of host English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: host)

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Hosts (file)

The hosts file is a computer file used by an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is a plain text file, and is conventionally named hosts. Originally, a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations. The Domain Name System, first described in 1983 and implemented in 1984, automated the publication process and provided instantaneous and dynamic hostname resolution in the rapidly growing network. In modern operating systems, the hosts file remains an alternative name resolution mechanism, configurable often as part of facilities such as the Name Service Switch as either the primary method or as a fallback method.

Hosts (novel)

Hosts is the fifth volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. The book was first published by Gauntlet Press in a signed limited first edition (April 2001) then later as a trade hardcover from Forge (November 2001) and a mass market paperback from Forge (September 2001).

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Usage examples of "hosts".

But if NK-2 dissipated his strength by trying to control his host more specifically, he would lack the resources to change hosts later.

He could do that, now that both hosts had been established, and he would be able to revisit this alternate host similarly, should that become necessary.

Both DS-1 and TM-R had had sufficient occasion to select and tame their hosts, but NK-2 had never established a proper liaison.

Levitation was a strain, and since they all had hosts it was so much easier to have their hosts move them, when moving was necessary, than to levitate.

Then, as soon as the hawk had flown away and killed itself or got itself killed, he would have his choice of hosts among however many people would be sleeping in the house.

In any case he would have to wait until he had had a chance to study more useful potential hosts than the rabbits, field mice, and other small creatures which were all that had thus far passed within his ken.

It had led the more intelligent among them to quit the deeps and live close to the shore, for evolution had proceeded in a different direction on land, and there were land creatures, who sometimes slept near enough a shore to be captured as hosts, who were much more suitable as such than anything the water had produced.

At first they themselves had had to stay in water most of the time and operate their hosts on land.

Now, with the help of suitable hosts, they could live as far from water as they wished and satisfy their food needs by having their hosts immerse them for an hour or so in a nutrient solution once every several months.

Such wonderful hosts, with their soft padded feet, their quickness, their keen hearing.

Any one of the fully grown cats that had been former hosts could have reached that ledge easily.

A returned exile was honored very highly indeed, and be-came a hero, if he brought back with him news of a species better fitted for hosts than the ones in current use.

The ability to control other minds, to make other creatures their hosts, had developed later, as their intelligence had grown.

But doing so, he knew, would be a long and difficult operation, involving the use of a considerable succession of hosts, each best adapted or least poorly adaptedfor one particular part of the task.

He learned above all that he had been careless, and had aroused curiosity by the things he had made his hosts, human or animal, do, especially by the manner in which he had made them kill themselves.