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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 10:32:31 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: arrrgh, this was working Sunday...
Message-ID:  <199601111732.KAA21487@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <9601111707.AA17486@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <9601040106.AA00652@tera.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.960108222417.886A-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> <9601111707.AA17486@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>

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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



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