From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 8:49:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EE414D7F for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA229569059; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:44:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199909071544.AA229569059@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Doug , chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hoping to configure DNS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:12:58 BST." <19990905231258.B13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:44:19 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Doug wrote: > >> The fact that A) You failed to answer my question as to why you want >a >> nameserver in the first place, > >So that he can resolve hostnames? I'd rather run a nameserver than >maintain /etc/hosts (yuk!) on multiple machines, It's not _that_ hard. NIS, which you might already be running if you have a handful of machines will do it for you. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message