Marc-Adrian, I think this can best be described by the philosophy of the various operating systems.
Micros~1's Vision Statement is, "A computer on every desktop." They have darn near nailed that one. Part of the remaining half of US households without computers includes the elderly, the poor, the overworked. The *only* way for them to tackle that bit of the market segment is by making machines work right out of the box. It doesn't matter so much to Micros~1 whether or not it works *well* out the box. That is where Linux, FreeBSD, etc come into play. It isn't enough for things to work out of the box -- users that are attracted to these operating systems would like to tweak things themselves, including who their nameservers are. I like tweaking this, since I set up a caching nameserver for myself (thanks to the nice maintainer, it really was a piece of cake -- apt-get install bind will do it.. :) and have THAT nameserver ask the three that serve my university for IPs -- so that in the future, my second computer has them cached, and no costly (heh, 10-20ms? :) lookups are involved whenever I need a different IP. This level of flexibility is unheard of in Windows -- but under Windows, the nameservers do not enter into any equations, as far as the home user is concerned. You can debate whether it is good or bad. Windows has its place (ask Linus! He has even been quoted as saying, "If you want to play games, use Windows. Games run very well under Windows." heheh. [does anyone have the exact quote? I know I messed that up..] :) As for me, I will be using Unix for as long as it is feasible. I hope I die before the end of Unix. (hehe. I don't need any help on that front! :) I like being able to tweak things. :) On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 10:57:35AM +1000, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > Hi there. > > I'm just curious as to why this is. > > When dialing up to an ISP with a windows machine, DNS servers are assigned. > > When using "pppd call provider" on a debian box (or any linux box) a > connection is made, but no DNS servers > are automatically found. > > Why is this? Why do i have to manually put in DNS servers in my resolv.conf > file when windows box automatically > find those values? > > I'm sure there is something that i'm missing here, so please fill me in. :) > > Regards, > > Marc-Adrian Napoli > Connect Infobahn Australia > +61 2 92811750 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
