IP address variable

John Miller fedora at n4vu.com
Wed Feb 16 21:33:33 UTC 2005


Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> Yes. That's what I'm saying. Why bother? What is DNS for?

DNS is for assigning IP addresses dynamically.  The hosts file is for 
assigning DNS addresses (semi-) permanently.

Of course, I may not be up-to-date on these things...

-- 
John Miller
Learned on UNIX




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