[37455] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: reverse mapping, was WAKEUPANDTAKECARE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon May 14 09:58:09 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: adam@flounder.net (Adam McKenna)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:44:17 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20010513220615.B6987@flounder.net> from "Adam McKenna" at May 13, 2001 10:06:15 PM
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> Sorry, but this is just 100% wrong. I've set up Oracle on many boxes and you
> don't need any DNS at all to set up an oracle DB. In fact, I tell our DBA's
> to use IP addresses in their TNSNAMES.ORA files because I don't want the DB
> depending on DNS.
>
> --Adam
So... you'd rather type in the address
3ffe:801:bbc4:873d:2d0:b7ff:fee8:c4d9
than the name
fedb.example.com?
More power to you.
--bill
