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Re: Name resolution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Dec 15 13:28:10 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 13:28:07 -0500
In-Reply-To: Alex Coventry's message of "Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:26:09 -0500"
Message-ID: <sjmwvd1zgi0.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > It's extremely unlikely that someone could reach sipb-nfs if they
> > cannot reach w20ns.
> 
> If that's the case, Karl's logic makes sense to me -- if a machine can't
> use w20ns as its nameserver, it can't use the boot disk as we've
> intended, can it?

I suppose not.  As I said, I was hoping the boot disk could be used for
"normal" Red Hat installs as well as the Linux-Athena install.  But I'm
a hopeful generalist ;)

> Alex.

-derek

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