16 Mar
2018
16 Mar
'18
3:04 a.m.
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Tony Finch wrote:
As I understand it, the old hosts.txt registrations
got grandfathered
into the DNS in the .arpa zone - they were ARPANET hosts (e.g. see RFC
921). The modern structure was set up after the transition to IP, so
it's fair to call .com and friends Internet domains. (See RFC 920.)
Yeah, I was referring to DNS as opposed to HOSTS.TXT of course.
But it looks like there were a bunch of .edu and .gov
names before
Symbolics.
I'm happy to be corrected/updated; I happen to have an interest in geeky
history (as if that wasn't apparent).
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OK, I'll bite: how do you do this?
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