Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:33:59 -0400 From: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970915043359.00faa990@mail.mindspring.com>
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At 11:42 AM 9/15/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I still claim >that /etc/hosts is just plain obsolete. If anybody can give me any >reasons for using /etc/hosts, I'm sure I can refute them. How about: You are running a very small network (less than 10 machines) and are sometimes connected to the Internet. You don't want to set up a nameserver. You _do_ want these machines to have names. You don't have names for them on the Internet. Furthermore, you don't want to have to diddle /etc/resolve.conf apon ppp-up and ppp-down to point at a different name server. You know exactly what "lookup file bind" does, and it does exactly what you want in this situation. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"
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