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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!dank
- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Subject: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
- Message-ID: <dank.715727727@blacks>
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- Organization: Image Analysis Systems Group, JPL
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:15:27 GMT
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- Hi,
- I'm writing a freeware tcp/ip application for the PC, and wonder if
- I can rely on people to have DNS support for looking up IP addresses
- from hostnames. If I can, my life is simpler, I can just distribute
- hostnames; otherwise, I'll have to distribute IP addresses, too.
-
- Does your site support DNS for its pc's? Are they configured to
- use it, or do they use a static hosts file?
- - Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.gov)
-