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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by geocar on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:37AM (#22274347)
These are Internet hosts.

You don’t run dhcp and update your dns from a client supplied unauthenticated field unless you’ve got no idea what you’re doing.

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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by icedchai on Saturday February 08, 2020 @04:57PM (#22278705)
That's good. DNS works with the Internet. ;)

I'm talking about providing a the DNS server list to update the client's resolv.conf, not updating the DNS server's host entries dynamically from the clients.

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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by geocar on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:45PM (#22280266)
> I'm talking about providing a the DNS server list to update the client's resolv.conf, not updating the DNS server's host entries dynamically from the clients.

Why?

This isn't what anyone else is talking about.

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