Mama Cass Elliot wrote:
>
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard DeMoN_LaG say these
> wise words:
>
> > Resolving host means looking up the address.
>
> Then why don't we simply call the process of looking up the IP number
> "Searching DNS for IP number" instead of "resolving host"? This will mean
> so very much more to ordinary people - ya know, the non-sysadmin types.
>
WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!? That would not be the Unix way! Frankly, I think
this whole "domain name" silliness has gone on far too long. Why, when
I was a young pup, we had to type in IP addresses in OCTAL, both ways,
and we liked it! "DNS", pfhht! Should be "DNMess" if'n ya ask me, you
whippersnappers! So how about a message that sez: "TYPE IN AN IP
ADDRESS YA LAZY KID! IN OCTAL!"
> seeya - wouldn't wanna be ya.
>
Oh, I can pretty much guarantee you'd want to be me. I'm everywhere you
want to be!
> Mama Cass
>
> --
> Thomas Watson, IBM corp - 1943: "I feel that there is a world market for as
> many as five computers"
