[339] in athena10
Re: Caching DNS for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 28 18:48:40 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200807282226.m6SMQscg025965@speaker-for-the-dead.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:47:55 -0400
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On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 18:26 -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU 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.
Machines actually at MIT are likely to have the search path configured
to mit.edu without our help. This would be more for machines using DHCP
outside of MIT. Since that's not really our target audience, I probably
won't implement (5) (especially since it's not trivial), but I thought I
would bring it up.
