[rescue] - hosts.txt from early or mid-1980's

[John Floren]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Ahmed Ewing <aewing at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Scott Mickey <mickey at denver.net> wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  >  Before DNS, there was just a single hosts.txt file.
>  >  Everyone downloaded it from SRI-NIC (anon ftp to 10.0.0.73).
>  >  Many RFC's and web pages about the history of DNS describe
>  >  the hosts.txt file.  However, I cannot find an actual
>  >  hosts.txt file from the early or mid-1980's.
>  >  RFC 920, dated October 1984, talks about a temporary
>  >  Top Level Domain = .arpa and several new TLD's:
>  >  .gov, .edu, .com, .mil, and .org.
>  >  I would like to see a version of hosts.txt that has these
>  >  "new" TLD's.  I am fairly certain such a hosts.txt was
>  >  being maintained before DNS (BIND) was widely deployed.
>
>  Here's one from '88:
>  http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-ev83b-bm/01/new-system/hosts.txt.html
>
>

Cool, my university was on the net as of '88:
HOST : 26.18.0.18 : RIT.ARPA : SUN-3 : UNIX : TCP/FPT,TCP/TELNET,TCP/SMPT :

I'll have to send that to my friends.

John
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