From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Pondering the hosts file
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:42:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBc9=AGmLTP6VpRA0zXrtvrmja9_y5MoVJOp8u0mL2R+Kw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBfmSGxeUgzJZOsaS_qPuUUB=y=CXu4LMMi=47S-6pFv-A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 15:30, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 15:12 Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> wrote:
>
>> "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > The hosts file format definition appears in
>> >
>> > RFC 752: Universal host table
>> > RFC 810: DoD Internet host table specification
>> > RFC 952: DoD Internet host table specification
>> >
>> > A 1986 hosts.txt file in my PDP-10 archives notes:
>>
>> The earliest copy of the hosts file I could find was
>>
>> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tops20_v6_1_tcpip_installation_tp_ft6/06/new-system/hosts.txt
>>
>> ;GIDNEY::<PAETZOLD.ARPANET>HOSTS.TXT.5, 27-Mar-85 13:11:54, Edit by
>> PAETZOLD
>> ;GIDNEY::<PAETZOLD.ARPANET>HOSTS.TXT.4, 25-Mar-85 13:56:55, Edit by
>> PAETZOLD
>> ;local stuff
>>
>> ; DoD Internet Host Table
>> ; 22-Mar-85
>> ; Version number 436
>>
>> Does anybody have an earlier copy?
>>
>> -Jan
>
>
> This was in the first page of Google search results for "DoD Internet Host
> Table"; I bet with a little more research I could come up with something
> much older. Or one of the PDP-10 folks will find the original...
>
> https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/
>
> -Henry
>
Perhaps a more interesting question, and one which I cannot quickly answer
(nor am I going to go pinging huge swaths of the public internet), is are
there any hosts in any version of HOSTS.TXT that are still on the public
internet in the same location? Or - and perhaps there is an easy answer to
this that I do not know - is there a repository of old WHOIS databases? I
remember being stymied ~20 years ago that Ultrix had SRI-NIC.ARPA hardcoded
in the whois binary and I couldn't find a hostname of the correct length
with which to replace it...
-Henry
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 17:13 [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-11 17:29 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-11 17:40 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2021-03-11 18:08 ` [TUHS] [COFF] " Warner Losh
2021-03-11 18:12 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-11 18:21 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2021-03-11 18:21 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-03-11 20:05 ` Jan Schaumann
2021-03-11 20:30 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 20:42 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2021-03-11 21:20 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 23:46 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-12 1:15 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2021-03-12 3:27 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-11 20:44 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-03-11 21:05 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-12 5:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-03-11 21:12 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 22:33 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2021-03-11 18:27 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 18:18 ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 18:02 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-11 20:32 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 21:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-11 21:08 ` Ron Natalie
2021-03-11 21:15 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-12 1:14 ` Mary Ann Horton
2021-03-11 21:20 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-11 18:30 Bakul Shah
2021-03-12 10:53 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
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