Re: [LI] (Repost) DNS : Logical query

["Nagarjuna G." <nagarjun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 gauravs@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

->
->
->/etc/hosts is sufficient in a small network. What do you do when you have 1000
->plus hetrogenous machines in your network. One has to opt for either DNS or DHCP
->in this case.
->
->The order in the host.conf file is just for the machine on which you are working
->to know the order in which it should resolve hostnames and not related with DNS
->server configuration at all.
->

I am confused.  Cant we say through the /etc/host.conf that first
finish resolving the private things throug the /etc/host and only then
go for bind, thus to DNS.  

Nagarjuna

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