11 Mar
2021
11 Mar
'21
9:30 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 15:12 Jan Schaumann <jschauma(a)netmeister.org> wrote:
"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