On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 15:52, Nancy McIntyre wrote:

> By the sounds of it, the best thing is to leave *nothing* unspecified.

Not really ... generally you'll want to pick up your ISPs settings
rather than specify them explicitly. That way, if your ISP changes DNS
servers your computer just picks up the change rather than stops
working.

For troubleshooting a specific problem, however, it may be worth
explicitly configuring them.

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Craig Ringer