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I had no idea enormous hosts files were the predecessor of DNS. Thanks for posting this! Ironically, hosts files are still passed around today, but for blockin
by jannes 6y ago
I had no idea enormous hosts files were the predecessor of DNS. Thanks for posting this!
Ironically, hosts files are still passed around today, but for blocking purposes instead [0]
[0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/h...
- tjalfi 6y ago(submitter) If you're curious what they look like, [0] has a bunch of old hosts files. [0] https://github.com/ttkzw/hosts.txt https://github.com/ttkzw/hosts.txt
- convolvatron 6y agofor a few years I was a human /etc/hosts gossip agent (among other things). I would use accounts that people had just given me at places like Goddard, Arpa, Ames and copy their hosts file. I would sort and uniq them, and go through them by hand for sanity, and then update our machines. I assume other people did the same.
- convolvatron 6y agooh right. sorry, for completeness - there were also several well known public ftp sites .. in fact I think it may have been common to leave a hosts file at the top level. I certainly published my version with ftp.
- gumby 6y agoWhy weren't people just FTPing the authoritative one from SRI?