Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Diving into TCP/IP again... need help finding docco... Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Date: Tue, 21 May 91 13:55:20 GMT Hi folks. I'm diving into the TCP/IP part of our network again. This time I want to set up a single nameserver machine, so we don't have to edit everyone's hosts.txt file for every new machine. Where do I look to find out how this is done? I want to use a System V/386 machine with intel's TCP/IP product as the nameserver if possible, but we will have a bunch of machines on it... including some Unisys 1100s that only support the basic DDN suite. Any hope of getting them to use a nameserver? Also, I'd like to use this as an opportunity to renumber our net. We originally set up as a class C network, but since we're unlikely to ever hook up straight to the real Internet is there any reason not to simplify things by using a class A network number? "Consult your local GURU", you say? Sorry, as far as this goes I'm as much of a GURU as anyone at this site. Pitiful, isn't it? To minimize bandwidth, please mail responses. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"