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Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer =?windows-1252?Q?=91blackouts=92_?=
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Thu May 24 11:38:17 2012
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 08:36:37 -0700
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@wvi.com>
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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
