From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 14 21:35:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27641 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brickbat9.mindspring.com (brickbat9.mindspring.com [207.69.200.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27636 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bogus.mindspring.com (user-37kbn38.dialup.mindspring.com [207.69.220.104]) by brickbat9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA21624; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:35:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19970915043359.00faa990@mail.mindspring.com> X-Sender: kpneal@mail.mindspring.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:33:59 -0400 To: Greg Lehey From: "Kevin P. Neal" Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:42 AM 9/15/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >I haven't been following this thread too closely, but I still claim >that /etc/hosts is just plain obsolete. If anybody can give me any >reasons for using /etc/hosts, I'm sure I can refute them. How about: You are running a very small network (less than 10 machines) and are sometimes connected to the Internet. You don't want to set up a nameserver. You _do_ want these machines to have names. You don't have names for them on the Internet. Furthermore, you don't want to have to diddle /etc/resolve.conf apon ppp-up and ppp-down to point at a different name server. You know exactly what "lookup file bind" does, and it does exactly what you want in this situation. -- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Junior, Comp. Sci. - House of Retrocomputing XCOMM mailto:kpneal@pobox.com - http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/ XCOMM kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu Spoken by Keir Finlow-Bates: XCOMM "Good grief, I've just noticed I've typed in a rant. Sorry chaps!"