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Re:From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure by martinald on Saturday May 24, 2025 @11:57AM (#44081906)
Lot of mistakes in this?
Re:From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure by apopapo on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:33AM (#44087704)
Pointing out precisely what you think could be mistakes would be useful.
Re:From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure by gmuslera on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:21PM (#44082054)
It's complaints about the hosts.txt era fail to understand what was the internet at that stage, a mostly academic network with limited reach and not a lot of hosts, justo one of the ways to connect computers back then and no idea of if that in particular was just a blip in the radar or a long lasting and global network, in a world that had no concept of i.e. "malware redirecting users to malicious websites". It's was a solution for the scale and expectations to grow at the beginning, and it was long deprecated by the time internet got anything near to comercial use.