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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 00:46:25 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
Cc:        Raul Zighelboim <rzig@verio.net>, fbsdqs <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Server assigned DNS 
Message-ID:  <199805122346.AAA14793@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 May 1998 15:31:43 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980512152831.14956A-100000@java.dpcsys.com> 

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> 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

-- 
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