[ih] Old version of HOSTS.TXT available?

[David L. Mills]

Noel,

The oldest HOSTS.TXT I have is Version 1008 (1990) from 
hostmaster at nic.ddn.mil. If useful, I can provide that. It's about 640 kB.

Dave

Noel Chiappa wrote:

> > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>
>
> > I'm searching for an old version of HOSTS.TXT
>
> The oldest official NIC one I could locate online quickly was from 22 
> March,
> 1985, here:
>
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/tops20_v6_1_tcpip_installation_tp_ft6/06/new-system/hosts.txt
>
> Maybe someone has an older one stashed away that's not online?
>
>
> If all you need is the information, there's an MIT/Stanford 'hacked' one
> online from March 15, 1983 (which interestingly is pre-TCP, unlike the 
> 1985
> NIC one), here inside this archive:
>
> http://its.svensson.org/SYSHST%3bAR1
>
> That's an ITS archive, but since it's not compressed, and the contents are
> mostly text you can just grovel through it with an editor and find the 
> file. I
> don't think there's a non-ITS archive program to read ITS archives; if you
> must, you can log into its.svensson.org (use TELNET) and run the ITS 
> archive
> reader on it. (Have fun learning DDT!)
>
> The directory:
>
> http://its.svensson.org/SYSHST%3b
>
> contains much other interesting semi-antique trivia.
>
>
> > preferrably somewhere around RFC 608 (1974)
>
> That's into serious history. Someone might have to spin a backup tape (if
> there's a drive, and the tape doesn't disintegrate) to get one that old.
>
> Noel