Old Internet Files

Every so often, I have a desire to see old (1990s era) Internet files. Lists of domains, root servers, and so forth. If you are good with search engines, you can find a few. But that's it.

So I hunted and hunted, found what I could, and put them online here. Note that they cannot be guaranteed to be accuarate; it is likely that at least a few were modified 'back in the day' for then-useful purposes. And it is also possible (although unlikely) that someone could have modified some of the files for more nefarious purposes.

UPDATE: There's a similar page at https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/. There are a number of files there that are not here, and vice versa, so please check it out.

hosts.txt

The hosts.txt file lists networks and hosts, and was originally the primary way of finding the IP addresses of hosts on the Internet.

hosts.txt
19831104 (56K)19831124 (57K)19840113 (61K)19840210 (65K)19840224 (66K)19840312 (68K)19840327 (80K)19840419 (83K)
19840427 (84K)19840625 (93K)19840713 (97K)19840727 (99K)19840907 (105K)19840914 (108K)19840917 (108K)19840928 (111K)
19841030 (118K)19841109 (122K)19841123 (126K)19841128 (126K)19841213 (128K)19841218 (128K)19841221 (128K)19850102 (129K)
19850117 (130K)19850122 (130K)19850124 (130K)19850128 (131K)19850130 (135K)19850212 (143K)19850322 (132K)19850422 (163K)
19850530 (177K)19850605 (178K)19850619 (184K)19850626 (190K)19850701 (190K)19850705 (190K)19850709 (191K)19850715 (196K)
19850829 (212K)19850903 (212K)19860102 (252K)19860205 (264K)19860430 (340K)19860505 (304K)19860710 (378K)19860723 (384K)
19860725 (385K)19860823 (394K)19860912 (403K)19861222 (483K)19861229 (484K)19870307 (502K)19870526 (509K)19870811 (560K)
19871202 (628K)19880122 (668K)19880224 (673K)19880316 (694K)19880518 (711K)19880608 (718K)19880906 (734K)19880921 (746K)
19881004 (751K)19881019 (738K)19881111 (754K)19881118 (754K)19881130 (759K)19881212 (764K)19890406 (818K)19890524 (842K)
19890614 (856K)19890726 (883K)19890918 (889K)19891204 (924K)19900314 (950K)19900521 (691K)19900815 (981K)19900830 (668K)
19901129 (627K)19920203 (1046K)19920723 (1139K)19930330 (446K)19930708 (1699K)19931028 (1719K)19940415 (727K)19950517 (532K)
19950907 (548K)19960614 (3439K)19970826 (4903K)

domain-info.txt

According to RFC 1032, the domain-info.txt file "contains a concise list of all top-level and second-level domain names registered with the NIC and is updated monthly."

It is a list of all known domains, although mostly covers the gTLDs (listing ccTLDs as 'No known domains under this top level domain'). It starts with a line "DDN NIC DOMAIN SUMMARY" followed by the date.

domain-info.txtSample Beginning
19871215 (6K)~405 domains
[ NETINFO:DOMAIN-INFO.TXT ]

		DDN NIC DOMAIN SUMMARY			15-Dec-87

AR
No known domains under this top level domain.
...
COM
3Com.COM        ADELIE.COM      ADOBE.COM       ADS.COM         AIT.COM
ALCOA.COM       ALLIANT.COM     ALLIED.COM      AlphaCDC.COM    ALTOS.COM
AMD.COM         AMDAHL.COM      AMETEK.COM      AMS.COM         APPLE.COM
APPLICON.COM    ATHERTON.COM    ATT.COM         BBN.COM         BDM.COM
...
19930611 (167K)~9461 domains
19930722 (87K)~5569 domains
19940222 (266K)~15256 domains
19950813 (1797K)~101702 domains
19960614 (9686K)~419364 domains

domain-contacts.txt

According to RFC 1032, the domain-info.txt file "also contains a list of all the top level and second-level but includes the administrative, technical and zone contacts for each as well."

It, too, mostly covers gTLDs. It starts with a line "DDN NIC DOMAIN CONTACTS" followed by the date.

domain-contacts.txtSample Beginning
19920722 (1481K)~5653 domains
[ netinfo/domain-contacts.txt ]

		DDN NIC DOMAIN CONTACTS			22-Jul-92

DOMAIN NAME
  CONTACT:  NAME		MAILBOX				PHONE

ROOT

 Admin: Government Systems, Inc.
...
10A.COM

 Admin: [Contact info removed]
 Tech : [Contact info removed]
 Zone : [Contact info removed]
...
19930524 (2300K)~9111 domains
19940222 (3970K)~15099 domains
19941204 (8801K)~33171 domains
19960530 (104M)
(very large!)
~388994 domains

Domain Files

These files list all the sub-domains for a TLD, without their nameservers, usually including the organization that owns the domains.

I have omitted .gov and .mil, as these appear to have been removed from search engines. I don't see the harm in nearly 20-year-old zone files, but want to be respectful. And no, those files aren't on this server.

Domain FilesSample Beginning
.ch circa 1994 (108K)1,868 domains
Switzerland (Swiss Confederation) top-level domain (CH-DOM)

   SWITCH Telefinformatics Services
   Limmatquai 138
   CH-8001 Zurich
   SWITZERLAND

   Domain Name: CH

   Administrative Contact:
      Brunner, Thomas  (TB192)  [email protected]
      +41 1 268 1530 (FAX) +41-1-268-1568
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Huber, Willi  (WH1101)  [email protected]
      +41 1 268 1530 (FAX) +41-1-268-1568

   Domain name servers in listed order:

   SCSNMS.SWITCH.CH             130.59.1.30
   SWIDIR.SWITCH.CH             130.59.72.10
   DXMON.CERN.CH                192.65.185.10
   NS.EU.NET                    192.16.202.11
   NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3
   PRINCETON.EDU                128.112.128.1

   There are 1868 known sub-domains:

   a-f.ch           A&F Computer-Systeme AG, Sandgruebestrasse 4, Sursee
   ...
.com 19930706 (523K)12,757 domains
.edu 19940516 (71K)1,553 domains
.gov 19940516 (15K)279 domains
.int 19940317 (2K)36 domains
.li 19940501 (3K)30 domains
.mil 19940511 (4K)45 domains
.net 19940516 (45K)998 domains
.org 19940516 (91K)1,984 domains

Zone Files

These files list all the sub-domains for a TLD, as well as their nameservers

Here are some that were once freely available. Note that I cannot add zone files that are properly protected (e.g. require signing a zone file access agreement that prohibits publication, as is usually the case now).

I have omitted .gov and .mil, as these appear to have been removed from search engines. I don't see the harm in nearly 20-year-old zone files, but want to be respectful. And no, those files aren't on this server.

Domain FilesSample Beginning
.arpa 19930311 (3K) 
EDU.	IN	SOA	NS.NIC.DDN.MIL.	HOSTMASTER.INTERNIC.NET. (
				930311	;serial
				10800  ;refresh every 3 hours
				900    ;retry every 15 minutes
				604800 ;expire after a week
				86400  ;minimum of a day
				)
                          518400     NS    NS.NIC.DDN.MIL.
NS.NIC.DDN.MIL.           518400     A     192.112.36.4
EDU.                      518400     NS    KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM.
   ...
.edu 19930311 (240K)
.edu 19991120 (771K)
 
.gov 19930311 (40K)
.gov 19991119 (173K)
 
.in-addr 19930326 (1720K)
.in-addr 19991119 (19228K)
 
.mil 19930311 (145K)
.mil 19981007 (10K)
 
.net 19930311 (41K) 
.org 19930311 (98K) 
.root 19930311 (34K)
.root 19991120 (59K)
 

asn.txt (ASNs - Autonomous System Numbers)

These files list the organization for each Autonomous System (essentially, a group of IPs that all have the same routing policy -- for example, an ISP would normally have its own AS).

asn.txtSample Beginning
19930311 (48K) 
[netinfo/asn.txt]                                       26-Aug-97

This file contains a list of autonomous system numbers and names of all
registered ASNs.  The column on the right below contains the NIC
database "handle" of the coordinator for the ASN.  White-pages
information may be obtained about any of the ASN coodinators in this
list querying the InterNIC WHOIS server.  For questions or updates on this
information please contact the InterNIC Registration Services Hostmaster staff,
[email protected].

ASN Numbers

  1         	 BBNPLANET                          [JC347]
  2         	 DCN-AS                             [EG76]
...
  32768-64511	 IANA-RSVD                          [JKR1]
  64512-65535	 IANA-RSVD2                         [JKR1]
End of file.
19930629 (62K) 
19940411 (82K) 
19950528 (130K) 
19950813 (136K) 
19960614 (173K) 
19970826 (243K) 

network-contacts.txt

These files list the contacts for networks, based on IP range.

network-contacts.txt
(LARGE files)
Sample Beginning
19911009 (2.1M) 

---------- NETWORK-CONTACTS.19911009.TXT
netinfo/network-contacts.txt

Registered Networks Contacts			9-Oct-91

This file contains information about contacts for every IP network
registered with the DDN Network Information Center (DDN NIC).  To find
...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Class A Networks
-------------------------------------------------------------------

0.0.0.0                          Reserved
 [Name and contact information]
...
19920228 (1.8M) 
19930305 (3.7M) 
19960614 (2.1M) 
19970826 (11.3M)