I used the Internet at CMU during the pre-DNS era, and my recollection is that the official hosts file came from SRI-NIC (this is corroborated by the ICANN hist

I used the Internet at CMU during the pre-DNS era, and my recollection is that the official hosts file came from SRI-NIC (this is corroborated by the ICANN history [0]). [0] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-023-04nov16-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-023-04nov1...