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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday...
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> > Also, to get a better background on what's going on, do 'man 5 resolver'
> > (unfortunately, this gets off to a rather confusing start by assuming that
> > "a normally configured system" runs a nameserver).
> 
> A normally configured system /does/ run a nameserver, if only to cache
> the results of previous queries.

Hogwash.  On my local network, is simply wasting memory and more
maintenance to run a namserver on all the machines


Nate