11 Mar
2021
11 Mar
'21
9:42 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 15:30, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 15:12 Jan Schaumann
<jschauma(a)netmeister.org> 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...
-Henry
"Nelson H. F. Beebe"
<beebe(a)math.utah.edu> wrote:
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
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/ne…
;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