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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
- References: <dank.715727727@blacks>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:03:24 GMT
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- dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel R. Kegel) writes:
- >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?
- *----
- It sounds like a very bad assumption. Everybody doesn't have DNS
- service: Even when its present at their site, the PC's may not be
- configured to take advantage of it; and many SLIP users don't know
- how to set things up for a nameserver. If I wanted my program to
- work over a wide variety of circumstances, I would not count on DNS
- being present.
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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