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- From: dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
- Subject: Re: Do most PC's use DNS or a local hosts file?
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- References: <dank.715727727@blacks> <Bu6ADp.KAt@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:19:09 GMT
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- In article <Bu6ADp.KAt@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- >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.
-
- Very true. This site has a name server, but it doesn't always work for me:
- it looks like it'll be such a pain to track down exactly what's going wrong,
- that I just put the few addresses I need right into the config file.
-
- Duncan Murdoch
- dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-