Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:03:50 -0500 (EST) From: gsutter@pobox.com To: Last of the House of Rurik <douglas@speakeasy.org> Cc: taco@mad.scientist.com, michael <killjoy@burnvictim.com>, freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dorm room ethernet Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212030118.8235y-100000@mph124b.rh.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980211193037.5983A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Last of the House of Rurik wrote: >On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Todd 'Taco' Hansen wrote: > >> no. if you had your own domain name, or found someone who was giving them >> out, you could assign a name from their domain, but you don't have any >> power to globally change/modify another organizations domain names. Unless >> of course you only want this name to apply to people connecting from your >> machine, then you do a host file. > ><http://www.ml.org>; is your best bet. Be careful, though. Penn State sneaked a change into their computer dictums last year outlawing non-PSU secondary domain name servers. Several people I know had to change their systems' names. Other universities may have done similar things. GReg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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