[H-GEN] Stopping nameserver lookup for local subnet

[John Ryland]

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On Friday 16 February 2001 09:34, you wrote:
> I have a masq box here too.  It runs on an old Cx-133 I had floating
> around.  It has 32MB RAM and a floppy - no HDD.  I run a DNS server on
> this box to speed up DNS queries and to remove the need for hosts files
> on my PCs.  I even run a DHCP server here too - saves the hassle of
> statically assigning IPs and etc.

Cool.

Okay, I'm convinced.
Sounds like what you are doing is really good and I would like to do the same.
My masq/firewall box is only a 486 with 8Mb RAM. Would that be enough?

BTW how to you fit all that on a single floppy?
The kernel I use is 600k, the dhcp client, bpalogin client, init scripts etc 
(all compressed ofcourse) all make my boot floppy close to full. How big are 
the dns and dhcp servers?

Regards
John

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