On 10/22/23 18:45, John Hasler wrote:
I wrote:
It's for people who haven't a clue as to what a domainname or address
block is.
Gene writes:
If that is an insult, so be it.
I just meant to explain that though it is not a solution to your problem,
it is a solution to a problem some other people have.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other John.
What really bugs me is when the maintainers forget there are hosts file
users, and do something that totally screws us up, getting help to
restore a broken system can't be done, cuz you can't ask anything with
it broken, and when by brute force, you finally get it sorta working,
95% of the help you need to really make it right is replaced by
instructions on how to setup just one facet of dhcp, so it often has to
be a snippet there, and another from someplace else, repeat till it all
works, gleaned from the 5% who do understand but are often drowned out
by the why the hell don't you run dhcp crowd representing the other 95%.
Not your fault of course, that is just how it is as viewed from this
chair, by the same guy whose been online since before Delphi, with a
trs-80 Color computer since we were blessed with a server at Princeton
in the 80's. A remodel got it walled in and forgotten about till
another remodel tore out the wall exposing it a decade later, still
running. 30+ years later I can't even remember its name. Perhaps you do.
Take care & stay well John.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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