[TUHS] [COFF] Pondering the hosts file
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Fri Mar 12 11:15:03 AEST 2021
(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.
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