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Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 1999 11:44:19 -0400
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, chris@tourneyland.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hoping to configure DNS 
Message-ID:  <199909071544.AA229569059@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:12:58 BST." <19990905231258.B13099@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 

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>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



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