RFC 627

RFC 627: ASCII TEXT FILE OF HOSTNAMES ✨

okay bestie, this is RFC 627 (NIC # 22360) and it's giving 1974 vintage 🎀 It's from the Network Working Group, titled "ASCII TEXT FILE OF HOSTNAMES", and written by Mike Kudlick (SRI-ARC) and Jake Feinler (SRI-ARC) on March 25, 1974 💖

The header doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say it obsoletes or updates any other RFC, so nobody go hunting 🙈

The online ASCII text file of official hostnames (the ones defined in RFCs 606 and 608) is now live at OFFICE-1, which is Hostaddr. 43 decimal, at the pathname <NETINFO>HOSTS.TXT 👑 Right now it has hostname, host address, and host status, and they hope to add more attributes soon. The NIC is going to maintain it, all hosts are encouraged to use these hostnames in their monitors, and changes or additions get added weekly. Every network host is responsible for grabbing new info from this file over FTP 📬

No nicknames are in there yet, but if a site wants to register one official nickname, it can! Nicknames get added to <NETINFO>HOSTS.TXT as they come in, and systems with name-to-address translation are encouraged, but not required, to use them 🦋

Hostname changes and nicknames are totally valid in principle, but practically? They'd really love for hosts to choose their official hostnames carefully, so changes and nicknames stay to a minimum 💅

If you have changes, additions, corrections, or comments, slide into the DMs of:

    Jake Feinler                       (415) 329-0742
    Network Information Center         Feinler @SRI-ARC
    Stanford Research Institute        IDENT=JAKE
    Menlo Park, Calif. 94025

And if any host wants to keep a secondary copy of this database (see RFCs 623 and 625), let them know 🌸

the editorial note at the bottom says this RFC was put into machine readable form for the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp., in 10/99 🫶

       [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
       [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with    ]
       [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp.            10/99 ]