[3007] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: registration of linux machines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Sep 27 11:06:19 2000
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 2000 11:06:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:41:35 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-Id: <sjmbsx93me3.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Except that 'pcs-server' isn't the default name -- it's the name that
resolved from you typing in a wrong IP Address. There is no 'default
hostname' in the installer. Indeed, if DNS fails, then it's likely
you wont be able to install. The only reason that DNS would fail and
you CAN install would be if you don't have an assigned IP Address (or
it was assigned recently enough that a nameserver update hasn't
happened).
-derek
Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Matching the hostname to the IP address is easy, it's called DNS, and
> > it's already done. ;-)
>
> OK, perhaps when the IP fails to resolve to the hostname, we could
> explicitly warn the user of this, rather than defaulting to the name
> 'pcs-server'.
>
> Alex.
>
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