It wouldn't have hurt anything either. The point is that it must work. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:49 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: 127.0.0.2 in /etc/hosts?
Fargusson.Alan wrote: > Your environment must be much different then mine. We have had some fairly > spectacular failures of our DNS servers, however I could not allow production > work to stop because of them. Resolving to 127.0.0.2 would not have helped you in the least. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 __________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email from the State of California is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review or use, including disclosure or distribution, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of this email.