From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 23: 9:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9469937B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:07:09 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f29795V42211; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:09:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:08:54 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Preece Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcpd and naming (warning, ranty). Message-ID: <20010308230854.V1367@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <5.0.2.1.1.20010309165732.026f1fa8@pop3.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20010309165732.026f1fa8@pop3.paradise.net.nz>; from davep@afterswish.com on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:38:07PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:38:07PM +1300, David Preece wrote: [snip] > God, I have to get bind going to be > able to resolve names for machines that are next to each other? BIND?? > There are whole books on bind. People go on training courses for it. It's > the #1 posessor of security holes, I don't want that running - I like to sleep. [snip] > Ah, fuckit. I have to hand one to the Windows weenies - here we have > another task that is just too difficult to be even remotely pratical on > Unix: naming on a Lan. Too depressing for words. Knowing just a little about how Win* name resolution works, I find the idea of worrying about BIND security holes kind of funny. Other than that, yes, name resolution is a bitch. (period) Doing name resolution on an IP network is pretty much always going to be kludgy since the concept of names does not exist in the IP itself. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message