No, I meant a table of static ip addresses (possibly it was in excel, db2, or any other old database) for each host so we do not configured the same IP to two or three different hosts. It was a nightmare. With IPX, AT address assignment was automatic. No DHCP in those old times. .as On 6/1/13 11:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: >> > I was working on TCP/IP, Novell and AppleTalk nets in the mid 90s and >> > as network engineers we hated to maintain a database of static IP >> > addresses for users, > I think you mean "a database of static IP addresses" DNS, not HOSTS.TXT. > Then, neither Novell nor AppleTalk enables it.