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Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2007 14:27:32 +0100
From: "Antonin Vecera" <antonin.vecera@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a small error in /rc/bin/cpurc
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On 11/5/07, Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:
> > > why the resistance to putting your machine into /lib/ndb/local?
> >
> > I want to have (if possible) only 1 place where I define IP address
> > assignment.
> > (+ dns, router, and in case of Plan9 fs+auth server)
> > So if i need to change something, I don't need to meditate where else
> > should I go.
> > But maybe in future I will find some reason to make my /lib/ndb/local
> > more accurate.
>
> Maybe you have found a reason. If you want to have only one place to
> define your ip address assignments, DNS, etc, etc, a look at the man
> pages for dns(8), dhcpd(8) and ndb(6) could bring you much happiness.
> You can use plan 9 to provide those infrastructure services for your
> network.
>
> The centralization of network config through ndb was the second of
> two qualities that got us investigating plan9 at my company, and I
> haven't seen another system that approaches the completeness and
> elegance of this approach. DNS without manually making PTR records
> and incrementing serial numbers? PRICELESS.
>
> --
> Josh
>

100% agree.
But... unfortunately I don't have spare machine to run Plan9 native.
I must run Plan9 in VMware player.

Antonin