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for 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, Am
by convolvatron 6y ago
for 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?