From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 13:49:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA24388 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA24380 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA06967 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:49:17 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id VAA01851; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:41:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199709151941.VAA01851@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) To: sthaug@nethelp.no Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:41:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, kpneal@pobox.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <23807.874303967@verdi.nethelp.no> from "sthaug@nethelp.no" at Sep 15, 97 08:12:47 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sthaug@nethelp.no wrote... > > If you have a name server, you don't need resolv.conf. > > > > > You know exactly what "lookup file bind" does, and it does exactly > > > what you want in this situation. > > > > It keeps your host names consistent across the local net? It caches > > name server lookups across your slow Internet connection? > > > > named is your friend. [snip] > As far as I know, all modern Unixes have the possibility of using > several different methods for host name lookups. I see no reason why > such useful functionality which is already in FreeBSD should be > removed. Hear hear. It has also served my quite well multiple times, so IMHO there is nothing to be gained in removing it. Please remember people who are not on dirt cheap US T1 links... Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda