From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 12 21:02:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03441 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 May 1998 21:02:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03303 for ; Tue, 12 May 1998 21:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA14793; Wed, 13 May 1998 00:46:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805122346.AAA14793@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Dan Busarow cc: Raul Zighelboim , fbsdqs Subject: Re: Server assigned DNS In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 May 1998 15:31:43 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 00:46:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 12 May 1998, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > It is a Microsoft/Ascend thing meant to set DNS servers during PPP > > negotiation.. > > No, it's a PPP thing. But it does not preclude using resolv.conf > and it does not imply that name server IP addresses will be changing > regularly. > > We do it here and there's not a speck of MS or Ascend in sight. Yes, this is one of the things that M$ actually did right. They came up with the original idea, and had it cast in stone - the right (rfc) way. > Dan > -- > Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 > DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com > Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message