From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 17:25:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA03518 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03510 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb (cedb.DPCSYS.COM [165.90.143.3]) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.6.10/DPC-1.0) with SMTP id RAA24041; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:11:36 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 17:11:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow X-Sender: dan@cedb To: Terry Lambert cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Nameserver and 'rlogin' in 2.1.5. In-Reply-To: <199608161952.MAA03216@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > Partial decision tree: > > START ASK "Do you have an internet connection?" > YES -> YES_IC > NO -> NO_IC No argument that /etc/hosts is the easiest, and usually the correct way to go if you don't have a full time connection. But, if you have a large internal network, or simply want to learn about DNS, there is absolutely no reason not to use DNS. It works, and it ain't that hard to setup. But I certainly wouldn't expect the installation program to help me do it. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82