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- From: stefan@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Stefan Mochnacki)
- Subject: Re: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
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- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 04:55:27 GMT
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- From skule.ecf!torn!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!dank Sat Sep 5 22:47:30 EDT 1992
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- From: dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Subject: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
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- Daniel Kegel asks:
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- > I'm writing a freeware tcp/ip application for the PC, and wonder if
- > 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.
-
- NCSA Telnet supports both; you have to explicitly give a few IP addresses
- unless you are using RARP.
-
- > Does your site support DNS for its pc's? Are they configured to
- > use it, or do they use a static hosts file?
-
- Yes, DNS is everywhere accessible, but things like DNS servers, gateways
- and the PC's own IP address are in the config file for NCSA or hosts
- file for PC-NFS. I know that the NCSA Telnet DNS client works well.
- I think that for a standard University network, you can assume that
- DNS service is present.
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