Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:59 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: >> DNS rewriting the hosts file is just plain screwy. In my mind there is >> something very wrong with the DNS server. > > DHCP changing the hosts file, not DNS... The DHCP server can specify > quite a few things to change, some on your computer, some on the local > DNS server (to add your computer to the records). > > Why? I'm glad you asked! DHCP is useful for when person A takes their > computer B to network C today, then goes home and plugs it into network > D, and takes it with them to the hotel network E, all of which have > wildly different parameters, and needs change to all manner of things: However, this only makes sense if all networks rewrite all the same data. If network D doesn't write out the hosts file that is needed for that network and the computer is taken to network E and the hosts file for D is wiped out....I think I've be rather miffed when I returned my system to network D. > > Your DNS servers. > Your IP address. > Your hostname. > Your gateway address. > Other server addresses... > -- You can't cheat the phone company.
