On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Deryk Robosson wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Fred Wright wrote:
>
> > Entries in Hosts and/or Lmhosts should indeed be used to define names for
> > the *local* machines, but DNS lookups with the proper server IP addresses
> > are still needed for outside locations. And empirically, having proper
> > entries in Hosts/Lmhosts does *not* prevent superfluous DNS queries,
> > though there might be some magic registry parameters that can rearrange
> > the priorities.
>
> This can happen, yes but properly setup stacks will attempt to resolve
> with hosts first and dns second (unless naturally other means are being
> used).
Well, Win9x out of the box doesn't qualify as a "properly set up stack" in
that sense. :-)
> I do this with MiamiDx for my wife when my linux box is away playing games
> with me and so long as any name lookup is local (ie in hosts) DoD isn't
> triggered.
Actually there are legitimate reasons for using the other order in some
cases. If the addresses are likely to change, using DNS first has a
better chance of getting the up-to-date mapping, while the Hosts entry can
be there just as a fallback in case of a DNS problem. AmiTCP even has a
setting for this. But obviously that kind of setup is undesirable with
DoD.
One of the problems with Windoze is that it doesn't realize that NetBIOS
names and DNS names are completely different namespaces, at least in the
case where ordinary ISP DNS servers are involved. I believe there's a
setting to change that, but I don't know what it is.
Fred Wright
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