On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 03:52 , Teri Pittman wrote: >>> If you don't have DNS, you'd better know the IP address you're trying >>> to >>> connect to. You need it to resolve the name. I've seen lack of DHCP >>> cause >> >> Not gonna be much use to try connecting if the modem isn't there, now >> is it? :) > > Would be the same thing for an intranet. It resolves the IP address to > the > name.
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