Re: Telnet/Winblows. Benefits of DNS etc.

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> > system.  Why you'd want to, that's your business - but it can be done... <g>
> 
>  Mmmm. I was hoping to try using it as a file server or sommat. I`m

That's what we have Linux for.  Samba is far more efficient than a Winbox,
and as for FTP/telnet and what have you, well, there's just not competition,
really... <g>

> gonna be giving the Windoze machine away (in return for a car! :-) so I

That's not a bad swap.  Not bad at all.

>  Windoze installs are a pain in the butt....6 reboots last time, what
> with all the bother with drivers etc :(

You did well.  I can't get it on in under 12 or so, usually.  Then again,
some of the hardware combos I end up with are rather... shall we say,
special?

> > >  Also is there a file similar to /etc/hosts on a Windoze machine to save
> > > me the bother of keying IP addresses?
> > 
> > I think C:\windows\hosts does it, but come along to the ShefLUG meeting on
> > the 12th and I'll show you how to do it with DNS... bewdiful!
> 
>  Cheers for the offer, but I live up here in Edinburgh. Sheffield is a
> bit too far afield ;(

I'm planning on putting up some notes this weekend on the subject, as the
basis for my talk.  You're welcome to take a copy if you want.  I'll be
posting the URL here when they're up.

>  Whilst on the subject, what benefits would I see if I ran a caching
> nameserver? I`ve got a P75 with 24Mb that I could use...I started to set
> one up, but gave up - couldn`t be arsed.

You'd see a bit of a speedup in lookups for frequently used sites, but the
caching in most resolver implementations isn't bad, usually.  I personally
wouldn't bother setting up a caching name server, it's not really worth the
hassle.  The benefit comes when you have a few machines, and maintaining
hosts files is getting to be a mondo pain in the arse.  Add those benefits
to the bit you might get from a caching nameserver, and you start to get
into the benefits region of the graph...


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