12 Mar
2021
12 Mar
'21
7:15 a.m.
(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.