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From: morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: New IP Network Number & PC-NFS
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Date: 22 Aug 89 01:48:05 GMT
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Geoff Arnold writes:

> Me, I just use RARP and YP. Some net people may badmouth it, but it
> does the job, and it's much better than copying humongous hosts files
> around the net.

Can there be any excuse for PC-NFS not to use the Domain Name System
directly?  (I guess most people who want DNS service from PC-NFS set
up the PC to use YP to get to a Unix host, which uses DNS to find the
answer to the YP request [This may be jumbled since I'm not a big
PC-NFS user.].)  

Cmon, this is 1989; hosts files have been obsolete for years already.
Many implementations of DNS for PCs exist, in the public domain even.

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford