On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:00:44 Roy wrote:
>At 07:27 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>The simplest thing to do is ad the remote devices to the server's hosts
>>file.
>
>That kind of defeats the purpose of DNS . Thanks for the thought though.
In general, yes, but in this case it just reduces the time needed to resolve
the names of known hosts. When there are a lot of connections involved, why
hold things up to resolve the name of a known host? Your machine is probably
checking the hosts file first anyway, why not let it succeed?
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