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Re: Caching DNS for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Mon Jul 28 18:30:48 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:30:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
cc: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>, ghudson@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>>> 5. (Optional) Configure the search path to mit.edu
>
> I use this on a daily basis, but I'm known not to be a good sample
> set. Given the number of people using dhcp with their laptops I
> suspect they're used to having to use FQDNs. OTOH, they may be less
> tolerant of that for machines actually at MIT.
I thought MIT's dhcp servers handed out "search mit.edu". One can change
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to ignore dhcp nameservers and always MIT's
nameservers, which I've found quite convenient when travelling.
-Tim Abbott
