On 5/23/2012 6:27 PM, George Herbert wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM,<valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
One could make the case that the releases before Paul got there weren't exactly popular - how many DNS servers were in production in 1986? ;)
Please don't make me remember hosts.txt before I've had a chance to wrap up work, go home, and get some Scotch in...
When I was in the US Army in Augsburg, GE, I was a dial-up "customer" of our local Army internet node. I'm not sure what the Micro was (Sperry? Unisys?) but it took up a good portion of a small room. hosts.txt was what it used - if I wanted to e-mail someone, I had to get the IP address of their e-mail server and have the sysadmin add it to the file. I, through my aunt, had the hardest time getting the IP address of the Oregon State University e-mail server out of them because they couldn't believe that there was someone out there who wasn't running DNS yet. I just wanted to be able to send e-mail to my aunt, who was one of my few family members who had e-mail at the time. This was 94-95. The system was due to be replaced at some point by a 486 PC... that would do DNS. Base closed in 1998... I wonder if they ever got their new system? Oy... I just remembered trying (and occasionally succeeding) to find Anonymous FTP sites via the nearly random typing of IP addresses on that system. Okay, time to go hug my DNS server. -- Jeff Shultz