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Dick St.Peters (stpeters@NetHeaven.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:35:23 -0400

Jeffrey J. Mountin writes:
> At 01:46 PM 4/13/97 -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> >
> >But then it can't give out the primary/secondary name server to users that
> >ask their ISP to provide it via PPP, can it?
>
> Works just fine with 95. Only recently tried this to see if it did work
> and I didn't break something when I reconfigured.

In other words, a PM configured to use NIS will tell Win95 clients to
use its NIS servers as DNS servers.

Having spent a long time on a DNS-less NIS network in a past life, I
rather suspect there are some corporate PM & NIS users who would not
consider this a feature ...

> >On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> >
> >> If it bothers you, you can change from DNS to NIS and then it will not
> >> try to resolve, which IMHO is better. Why hit your DNS server(s) for no
> >> real good reason. In RADIUS clients, use IPs not hostnames. 

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