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Dick St.Peters (stpeters@NetHeaven.com)
Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:22:10 -0400
Jeffrey J. Mountin writes:
> At 05:35 PM 4/14/97 -0400, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> >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 ...
>
> There may be a slight misunderstanding here. The PM will pass along the
> nameserver(s) addresses and the gateway. Even under NIS you need a DNS
> resolver, unless you are private and then this is all moot.
Actually, under NIS you don't need a DNS resolver, but more
importantly if you do use a DNS resolver with NIS, the DNS nameserver
needn't be the NIS nameserver. I'm thinking in particular of two GE
sites that use Portmasters for internal dialup. Both sites have
external DNS, internal DNS, and NIS. I can't recall any of the NIS
servers also being DNS servers.
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