From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 00:22:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA07787 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr04.primenet.com (tlambert@usr04.primenet.com [206.165.6.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07775 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:22:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA17272; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 00:21:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709150721.AAA17272@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 07:21:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970915140722.43631@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Sep 15, 97 02:07:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > You don't want to set up a nameserver. > > No fair. We're talking about technical reasons here, not emotional ones. Because you are running a very small machine as your gateway: it has only 4M of RAM, and it netboots off another machine using "netboot" in an autoexec.bat file on a boot floppy. And there just isn't room for the pig. 8-) 8-). > It keeps your host names consistent across the local net? It caches > name server lookups across your slow Internet connection? I told you before: I don't want it caching non-local data. > named is your friend. If it were my friend, it's have a Motif front end to set it up, like all my other friends... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.