Subject: Re: Mac Name
From: Michael Bartosh (bartosh@ocean.tamu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 10:50:21 EST
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Michael Bartosh wrote:
>
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I am not experience mac person. So please bear with me. We are trying
> > >break our office into few sub nets and provide file transfer service
> > >between mac and linux using netatalk. (Just AFPD) I just want to set up
> > >our internal DNS with alkl the tcp/ip addresses of MACs. But our mac guy
> > >says taht their are no place in the mac that can set up its name.
> > >
> > >if on DNS
> > >
> > >myDumbMac 192.168.21.14
> > >
> > >How come you cannot do that on Mac?????
> >
> > because the smart mac doesn't have to. It does a reverse lookup,
> > unlike yourdumbpc.
> >
>
> Of course, the smart mac is the only system I know of with TCP/IP that
> DOESN'T provide a way to static map hostnames to IPs.
>
> Some that do provide this would be UNIX (pick your flavor), OS/2 and even
> that stupid Windoze thing...but not MacOS.
>
> Why would you want to map a hostname to an IP? To cover those situations
> when DNS is down but people would still like to get their email.
The MacOS /can/ map static hostnames to ip's.
http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n19646
The MacOS /doesn't have to/ have its own name specified along with its IP.
Please try to verify your facts before you get so bitter. I was trying to
add humor into the world- after all we all enjoy ragging on Windows.
And maybe distribute a hosts file to your Macs in case your DNS goes down
and you want to check mail.
-mab
>
> Of course, there are Macs that handle this, primarily ones where MacOS was
> nuked and replaced with Linux. :)
>
> MacOS X will fix it. Yeah, that's it.
>
> Bill Carlson
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