[Sussex] Test of smtp and query about DNS resolution

Tony Austin tony at gigaday.com
Tue Nov 18 09:05:51 UTC 2003


> | DHCP doesn't have anything to do with it - it just dishes out the IP
> | addresses.
>
> Err, DHCP assigns many things, including IP address, Netmask, Default
> Gateway, DNS servers, WINS servers, bootp server (and associated info),
> and hostname, and prolly many other things. DHCP will, and does,
> overwrite resolv.conf.
>
> Jon

I meant in the context of the speed of DNS lookups.  Thanks for pointing
out my omission.


Regards.

Tony Austin
Gigaday Computing Limited
http://www.gigaday.com
tony at gigaday.com





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