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Date:      Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:44:37 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem)
Message-ID:  <19970915084437.XX17061@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199709150351.VAA22054@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Sep 14, 1997 21:51:27 -0600
References:  <199709142148.OAA22603@usr09.primenet.com> <199709150141.CAA26286@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <19970915114213.54969@lemis.com> <199709150340.VAA21991@rocky.mt.sri.com> <19970915131259.59073@lemis.com> <199709150351.VAA22054@rocky.mt.sri.com>

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As Nate Williams wrote:

> NTP, AMD, firewall stuff.  Heck, the default 'setup' assumes it can resolve
> hostnames just to configure your IP address, ...

Huh?  No, Nate, we've abandoned this long ago.  We are using IP
numbers there to solve the chicken-and-egg problems.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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