[Preston] DNS Question

[Andrew King]

Thanks to all who replied to the DNS question - it told me a few new 
things and agreed with a few things I already thought.  It was the bit 
on how it works on internal IP numbers that I was wondering.  I'm not 
sure whether we'd have much call for one or not. We've got 135 
workstations, and we've had to change our IP range in the past, and that 
mean't going around messing with all the print servers, some of which 
were a major pain - giving them all hostnames would save this in future.

But yea, main reason is to just figure out the basics of it so that 
it'll be useful elsewhere if not here. They insist on me being in the 
library every lunchtime for 45 minutes, but have now told me to feel 
free to use a computer throughout, so I've got 45 minutes a day on a 
slowish machine that can just happily run putty and a couple of browser 
windows, so that's one thing to look into.

Thanks for the mentions of that O'reilly book. As well as the official 
free ones at www.oreilly.com/openbook, there are also a few more at 
www.linux.cu/mirrors/www.oreilly.com/catalog which may be of interest to 
people (html, css, javascript, webmaster, perl, samba, sed+awk, 
dns+bind, sendmail, sendmail reference, and a few others, iirc).

Andrew