From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 20:40:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA24141 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 20:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA24134 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 20:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05385; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:40:06 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA21991; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:40:03 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:40:03 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709150340.VAA21991@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) In-Reply-To: <19970915114213.54969@lemis.com> References: <199709142148.OAA22603@usr09.primenet.com> <199709150141.CAA26286@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <19970915114213.54969@lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey writes: > If anybody can give me any reasons for using /etc/hosts, I'm sure I > can refute them. - The box *IS* the primary DNS box for my network, and hence can't resolve addresses at bootup until after DNS is running, but needs some resolution in other parts of the system for starting up things until DNS gets running. - The box is on a private home network made up of two hosts, and these machines need to talk to each other at times. Setting up a DNS server is a waste of resources for a private network. - The machine in question is using a slow and/or part-time network connection, and while doing 'local' work with sockets and such (programming, etc...) doesn't need to have the link up, and/or doesn't need to be using bandwidth usable for other processes. Could I run DNS and solve some of my problems? Of course, but it'd be like hammering nails with a sledge-hammer. It gets the job done, but it's way overkill. Nate