[3233] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Name resolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Dec 15 13:22:48 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 13:22:45 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:06:15 -0500"
Message-Id: <sjmzohxzgqy.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Is it possible that sipb-nfs could be accessible to a machine if w20ns
> is not?
It's extremely unlikely that someone could reach sipb-nfs if they
cannot reach w20ns. Unless the named process of w20ns has died. ;) I
don't remember if the current bootdisk loader will supply the sipb-nfs
address in all cases. It _USED_ to be the fact that it would only
supply sipb-nfs to net-18 hosts. However, the new one might supply it
in all cases. I'd have to check the code.
> Alex.
-derek
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