Subj : Hello?
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Sat Oct 21 2000 07:10 am

Steve Quarrella said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:

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

 SQ> Let me ask an ignorant question, then:  Can I run this thing
 SQ> without any kind of hostname?

Nope....

Because in a roundabout way.. that's how Solaris finds it's IP address. It 
'reads' the hostname from an /etc/* file (can't recall the exact name) and then 
does a lookup on that name. Ideally it'll do the lookup from the /etc/hosts 
file -- but if you've told it to use DNS in preference to local files.. it'll 
try to do a DNS query on the name.


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