domain name services from unix?

[forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk]

yes, i quite agree, and that's what i usually do.
you can also import just /net/dns.
i'd assumed he might not (yet) have a CPU server,
but even so i ought to have mentioned it!


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forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk writes:
| the short answer to kiran's question is that he probably
| isn't running ndb/dns on the terminal.  

I kind of like the idea of importing the cpu server's /net/cs to get
the nameserver.  For one thing, that puts all the dns caching in one
place.  There is the overhead of exports, but if you've got a
distributed system isn't it worth exercising it?