NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/sys/apollo/3422

Internet Message Format | 1992-09-01 | 1.3 KB

Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!eba!ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl!wjw
From: [e-mail] (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: BSD named questions
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:09:10 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Sender: [e-mail] (The News system)
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Distribution: comp
Organization: Digital Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Lines: 19

=>  the thing we need to do is keep the ability to rsh around the local
=>  net(s) if we drop a router between us and the name server(s). Are we
=>  really expected to run a name server on each Apollo ring to keep this
=>  functionality ?

I don't think this is required.

Why not use the /etc/resolv.conf file and insert some real hard IP
addresses. You still lose when the IP number changes, but the
primary named is then most of the time available.

WjW
--
Digital Information Systems Group, Room EH 10.35
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. 513                             Tel: [phone],Fax: [phone]
5600 MB Eindhoven                    The Netherlands
Internet:  [e-mail]
X400:      C=nl;ADMD=400net;PRMD=surf;O=tue;OU=ele;OU=eb;S=WJW;