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From: karn@jupiter..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Does the latest KA9Q use HOSTS.NET ?
Message-ID: <18839@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 23:15:06 GMT
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Reply-To: karn@jupiter.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
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In article <34781@mirror.UUCP> skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) writes:
>To use a static host table, simply don't declare any domain name servers
>in AUTOEXEC.NET but instead create a file named DOMAIN.TXT in the root
>directory with lines of the form:
>
>   (NAME) 99999999 IN A (IP)

Actually, the dummy TTL field isn't really required. You can enter records
like this:

foo.bar.com.	IN	A	1.2.3.4

and they will be interpreted as having TTLs of infinity.

Of course, all this is moot since I don't yet implement the timing out of
resource records...

Phil