From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 12:30:30 -0400 From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk Subject: domain name services from unix? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bce799e-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19950824163030.XZn_48quX4BNJs_MOKfHg_Ztx1jH8s2Q265pMAVuw_g@z> 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! ------ original message follows ------ >>From cse.psu.edu!9fans-outgoing-owner Thu Aug 24 16:55:09 BST 1995 Received: by colossus.cse.psu.edu id <45565>; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:32:06 -0400 Received: from galapagos.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.2.12]) by colossus.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <45691>; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:27:27 -0400 Received: from localhost by galapagos.cse.psu.edu with SMTP id <12709>; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:14:40 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: domain name services from unix? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Aug 1995 07:02:54 EDT." <95Aug24.071351edt.45578@colossus.cse.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 11:14:27 -0400 From: Scott Schwartz Message-Id: <95Aug24.111440edt.12709@galapagos.cse.psu.edu> Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu 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?