Hi, David. Isn't it the operating system's task to determine IP-address and DNS-servers? Either the admin configured everything for a machine, or she chose to use DHCP on that. I never understood why a mail transfer agent like James or Sendmail needs special settings for DNS.
Hiran ----------------------------------------- Hiran Chaudhuri SAG Systemhaus GmbH Elsenheimerstra�e 11 80687 M�nchen Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +49-89-54742-134 Fax +49-6151-9234-5134 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Smiley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:47 AM > To: James Developers List > Subject: Re: Newsgroup integration, and other questions > > > > > > 1: What's so wrong about sending out single innocent DHCP > UDP packet to > > > query the DNS server on startup? Is that really so bad? > > > > Ok, but then what? > > To find the DNS servers so I don't have to specify this myself in the > configuration. > > ~ David Smiley > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
