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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dns not running
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:52:31 +0100

From: Russ Cox <rsc@pla...>

> Your problem is not that you're not running ip/ipconfig.
> It is, as you point out, that dns does not start at boot.
> This is by design -- no ip address, no dns.

you always have an IP address 127.0.0.1 and running
a dns is always a good idea as long as it implements
a cache as per BIND.  speeds up DNS lookups.

i've never liked ip/ipconfig.  i like the dns config
files, but was horrified to learn that it finds the
hostname (never documented) by ethernet address.

pull the card -- start again.

admittedly my point of view comes from the unix world,
but i do understand that the labs environment is very
different.

a DNS implementation is not to be undertaken lightly.