Re: Telnet/Winblows. Benefits of DNS etc.

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, Matthew John Palmer wrote:

>Most assuredly.  This doesn't really come into the class of a proper fix,
>unfortunately - I'd only class it as a workaround.  Perhaps the time has
>come to do a little work to BIND to produce a temp-link friendly version.

Agreed. I bet an awful lot of people on intermittent connections are using named
with a similar fix.

>> named.conf to make all (tcp) traffic come into port 35. But I guess if port 35
>> is open you should chroot named and I couldn't be bothered to do that.
>
>Isn't it 53?  I wouldn't run maned any other way on a public system.

Yes brain fart. As my excuse I will say that dyslexia is more prevalent in
mathematicians than the general population. You seem to have it too ;-)

atb
Martin
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