Subj : Hello?
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Mon Oct 16 2000 11:54 pm

Steve Quarrella said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

 lg> Or something similar.. essentially if you needed to add an 'A' 
 lg> record to the primary zone server, then "something" on the Solaris 
 lg> box was attempting to identify itself by -name- rather than -IP 
 lg> Address-.

 SQ> Certainly a possibility, given that I was prompted for host
 SQ> information during the installation procedure.   My question would
 SQ> be "Why does this need to happen?"  I mean, it's not like we're
 SQ> authenticating to a domain or something. 

Because.. if you give it a 'name'.. then.. when it wants to know 'what' the 
system is referenced by the name (even if it is itself), it will try to lookup 
that name in the DNS.. if it isn't there.... well... :-)

 lg> I have the "Solaris 7" CDROM that got from a free licensing program a
 lg> couple of years ago (but never installed). I had -no- idea it was
 lg> actually "Solaris 2.7" .

 SQ> I HAD kinda wondered "Gee, why'd they leap from 2 to 8 so quickly."

Meee tooo.

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