[aclug-L] Re: DNS-domain name for home network?

["Larry Bottorff" <mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This was all about getting Oracle client stuff to work on Windoze and talk
to my ora-on-linux box. It works now and I just have two machines, so I just
used Carl's advice and set it up on the hosts files. If I ever get a job
again (read when I move out of Kansas), I hope to work where they already
have this kind of stuff figured out....

Larry Bottorff
Moundridge, Kansas
mrprenzl@xxxxxxxxxx

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> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 11:09 PM
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: DNS-domain name for home network?
>
>
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Jonathan Hall wrote:
>
> > yes... you can do that... but IMHO, DNS is much easier... at
> least once it's
> > working (and getting it working for a private LAN really isn't
> that hard--I
> > did it years ago before I even really had a clue what DNS was for).
>
> "Once it's working" is the key phrase.
>
> > If you have more than just a couple machines, DNS quickly
> becomes easier to
> > administrate... and it becomes easier faster when you have
> Windows or other
> > non-Unix OSes, too.
>
> How difficult is it to copy a file to a few machines?  Harder than setting
> up bind?  I don't think so.  And how many times is that host file going to
> change?  Is it going to change so often that copying the hosts file around
> is ultimatly more time consuming than setting up Bind?  Heck, the time it
> would take to read the DNS-HOWTO probably exceeds the amount of time any
> hobbiest is going to spend copying files around.
>
> If you want to play around, fine.  But my money's on setting up the hosts
> file and getting back to work.
>
> --
> Carl D Cravens (raven@xxxxxxxxxxx)
> Hey, you work at McDonalds, you can afford it!
>
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