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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>,
	Internet History <internet-history@postel.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Pondering the hosts file
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:15:03 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2103111844390.6117@t1.m.reedmedia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBc9=AGmLTP6VpRA0zXrtvrmja9_y5MoVJOp8u0mL2R+Kw@mail.gmail.com>

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(I re-added Internet History list to my response here ...)
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021, Henry Bent wrote:

> 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...

Using 1988 SRI-NIC host table
https://github.com/ttkzw/hosts.txt/blob/master/pub/hosts/19881208/HOSTS.TXT

I don't know if at same location, but some relationship and even some 
same or close names:

CS.WISC.EDU 128.105.2.6

128.135.0.0 u-chicago.uchicago.edu.

uvaarpa.virginia.edu. uvaarpa-old.virginia.edu.  128.143.2.7

jellicoe.cs.ucl.ac.uk. 128.16.3.1

honda.cs.columbia.edu. 128.59.16.16

cesd-gw.ai.sri.com. 192.12.33.1

ns0.llnl.gov. 192.12.17.1

umbc-net.umbc.edu. 130.85.0.0

net.queensu.ca.  130.15.0.0

ns.indiana.edu. 129.79.1.1

oswego-net.oswego.edu.  129.3.0.0

dorm-net0.stanford.edu. 128.12.0.0

nas-net.nas.nasa.gov. 129.99.0.0

Several others at same organizations or descendants. A lot are under 
xip.io.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-12  1:16 UTC|newest]

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
2021-03-11 21:20               ` Henry Bent
2021-03-11 23:46               ` Richard Salz
2021-03-12  1:15               ` Jeremy C. Reed [this message]
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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