Re: [tlug] NetBSD dhclient...

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:17:28AM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:41:14AM +0900, Michael Doughty wrote:
> 
> > Apparently NetBSD thinks that if a DHCP server isn't going to tell you which
> > domain name to use, it has no business telling you where DNS servers are.
> 
> That's perfectly reasonable.  What it really means is that if a DHCP server
> won't tell you which zones the DNS servers are authoritative for, the DHCP
> server is misconfigured and therefore its DNS information is to be disregarded.
> 
> Unless one has foreknowlege of the domain searchlist, the supplied DNS
> information is only going to be useful for reverse lookups.
> 

unless it is a caching only nameserver. Unless I missed something?

--Matt
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