Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 07:21:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) Message-ID: <199709150721.AAA17272@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19970915140722.43631@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 02:07:22 pm
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> > You don't want to set up a nameserver. > > No fair. We're talking about technical reasons here, not emotional ones. Because you are running a very small machine as your gateway: it has only 4M of RAM, and it netboots off another machine using "netboot" in an autoexec.bat file on a boot floppy. And there just isn't room for the pig. 8-) 8-). > It keeps your host names consistent across the local net? It caches > name server lookups across your slow Internet connection? I told you before: I don't want it caching non-local data. > named is your friend. If it were my friend, it's have a Motif front end to set it up, like all my other friends... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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