From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28133 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2021 01:16:42 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Mar 2021 01:16:42 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6E4A19C6B0; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:16:41 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC4A09C779; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:15:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E926B9BB8B; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:15:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nb3.reedmedia.net (nb3.reedmedia.net [71.19.148.35]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DD9A9C2E5 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:15:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [47.185.45.31] (helo=reedmedia.net) by nb3.reedmedia.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1lKWOT-0006oz-Lw; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 01:15:09 +0000 Received: from reed@reedmedia.net by reedmedia.net with local (mailout 0.17) id 2642-1615511703; Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:15:04 -0600 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:15:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" X-X-Sender: reed@t1.m.reedmedia.net To: Henry Bent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20210311200558.GW3990@netmeister.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; BOUNDARY="0-400757785-1615509891=:6117" Content-ID: Subject: Re: [TUHS] [COFF] Pondering the hosts file X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list , Internet History Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-400757785-1615509891=:6117 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: (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 answe= r > (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?=A0 Or - and perhaps there is an easy answe= r to > this that I do not know - is there a repository of old WHOIS databases?= =A0 I > remember being stymied ~20 years ago that Ultrix had SRI-NIC.ARPA hardcod= ed > 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=20 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=20 xip.io. --0-400757785-1615509891=:6117--