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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem
To: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 12:15:39 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199508081849.LAA09174@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Aug 8, 95 11:48:59 am
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> 
> >> 
> >> >In message <199508080043.RAA02014@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, "Rodney W. Grimes" w
> >rit
> >> >e
> >> >s:
> >> >>Yes, but leads to a simple fix, running a cacheing name server on all
> >> >>NFS servers, and point your clients to that name server.
> >> >
> >> >Can you run named on a multi-homed Novell server? :-)
> >> >
> >> >Gary
> >> 
> >> Actually yes.  I believe that novell's NFS gateway comes with named, and
> >> NIS.
> >
> >Unless they added this after netware 4.0 your wrong.  Novell's NFS comes
> >with lpr/lpd gateway code, but uses static sys:\etc\hosts file for
> >name resolution.  If it had DNS support I would have lost 5 system
> >sales last year :-).
> >
> >Or is ``NFS Gateway'' something added after NFS 1.2b as a new product?
> >
> 
> NFS Gateway is now bundled with NFS 1.2c (total package $2600 from anywhere
> sane).  It is a separate package that you install.  It allows Netware
> to mount from other NFS servers and export them as Novell volumes.

AHh... new product... and at $2600 my DNS server for $1500 is a more
cost effective solution for those running MHS who only need DNS services
and not NFS :-).  Good, I am safe in that business line, thank you Novell
for your silly bundling and price structure :-).

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