On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 12:17 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I'd think that ISP's would encourage local > DNS servers anyway - you really should have one that provides > answers for reverse (number-to-name) lookups for all of your > private addresses behind NAT or you'll throw a lot of unnecessary > traffic at the root servers and expose your internal topology > as most connection attempts result in a name lookup. Making an assumption that most Linux users would have hosts files or DNS, I'd think that they'd not do that. Making an assumption that the greatest majority of users are using Windows, does their internal networking system (SMB, etc.) use DNS for resolution? I thought it used lmhosts and broadcasts as a fall back, usually? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
