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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: reed@reedmedia.net
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] looking for HOSTS.TXT parsers and how is /dev/net/HOSTNAME enabled?
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 04:03:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wa7gmk5fj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.21.1904181949240.2488@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (reed@reedmedia.net's message of "Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:54:11 -0500 (CDT)")

reed wrote:
> I am researching 1970's symbolic name to network address mapping
> routines.  I am looking for parsers for ancient (pre mid 1982)
> HOSTS.TXT. Since this is Unix list, for Unix is fine :)

I have those routines and parsers for the PDP-10 ITS operating system.
(I will just post this one off-topic message in this thread.)

> Well I cannot find a copy of the HOSTS.TXT file anywhere.  I am not
> looking for the RFC 810 (1 March 1982) or later format (which is
> easily found).

Here is a collection, but most of them are from after that date.

https://github.com/ttkzw/hosts.txt

I was thinking SAIL must have had something, but I don't see any hosts
list from the 70s here:

https://www.saildart.org/[*,NET]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-19  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-19  1:54 reed
2019-04-19  2:38 ` Warner Losh
2019-04-19  4:03 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2019-04-19 11:57   ` ron
2019-04-19 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2019-04-19 18:54   ` Clem Cole
2019-04-19 21:52   ` reed
2019-04-19 22:50     ` Clem Cole

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