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 15:30:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfmSGxeUgzJZOsaS_qPuUUB=y=CXu4LMMi=47S-6pFv-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210311200558.GW3990@netmeister.org>
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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
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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 [this message]
2021-03-11 20:42 ` Henry Bent
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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