Re: Newsgroup integration, and other questions

[David Smiley <ds...@mitre.org>]

> > 1: What's so wrong about sending out single innocent DHCP UDP packet to
> > query the DNS server on startup?  Is that really so bad?
>
> Ok, but then what?

To find the DNS servers so I don't have to specify this myself in the
configuration.

~ David Smiley



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Re: Newsgroup integration, and other questions

[Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>]

Oh, oh, I see what you mean... well, don't you risk grabbing a lease 
that some other machine could use (assuming you're pulling from a pool 
of IP addresses)?  This might be a cool thing to do though... I don't 
know the specifics of the DHCP protocol, but would be nice to have a 
conf setting to use DHCP is this would work.

I found this and think I had tested using this once before.. 
http://www.dhcp.org/javadhcp/  It's GPL so we couldn't use it as is, but 
perhaps we could talk to the author about the code... hasn't been 
modified since 9/13/99.
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David Smiley wrote:
>>>1: What's so wrong about sending out single innocent DHCP UDP packet to
>>>query the DNS server on startup?  Is that really so bad?
>>
>>Ok, but then what?
> 
> 
> To find the DNS servers so I don't have to specify this myself in the
> configuration.
> 
> ~ David Smiley


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