At 4:41 PM -0800 2002/11/18, Terry Lambert wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't think of transient networks. Indeed, that does make things a lot uglier. I'll have to think some more about all the various implications, however.But. If you are transiently connected, then if the on site DNS server is authoritative, then there is no way to look up externally hosted services via DNS, unless the external DNS, also a hosted service, and therefore not transiently connected, is authoritative.
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