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Re: Name resolution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Dec 15 13:01:15 2000

To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Cc: kcr@1ts.org, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 2000 13:01:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:09:20 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjm1yv91s4c.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > It should only be set it you're on net-18.
> 
> Are there any disadvantages to using w20ns for the install if you're not
> on net-18?

No, there wouldn't be any problems, necessarily.  It's just that I
don't want to assume that you can reach w20ns if you're not on net-18.
I.e. I want the bootdisk to be usable for non-MIT installations.

> Alex.

-derek

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