On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Michael Bartosh wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am not experience mac person. So please bear with me. We are trying
> >break our office into few sub nets and provide file transfer service
> >between mac and linux using netatalk. (Just AFPD) I just want to set up
> >our internal DNS with alkl the tcp/ip addresses of MACs. But our mac guy
> >says taht their are no place in the mac that can set up its name.
> >
> >if on DNS
> >
> >myDumbMac 192.168.21.14
> >
> >How come you cannot do that on Mac?????
>
> because the smart mac doesn't have to. It does a reverse lookup,
> unlike yourdumbpc.
>
Of course, the smart mac is the only system I know of with TCP/IP that
DOESN'T provide a way to static map hostnames to IPs.
Some that do provide this would be UNIX (pick your flavor), OS/2 and even
that stupid Windoze thing...but not MacOS.
Why would you want to map a hostname to an IP? To cover those situations
when DNS is down but people would still like to get their email.
Of course, there are Macs that handle this, primarily ones where MacOS was
nuked and replaced with Linux. :)
MacOS X will fix it. Yeah, that's it.
Bill Carlson
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