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Date:	Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:30:03 PST
From:	<leganii@surfree.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Feb. meeting on TCP/IP - DNS, DHCP

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On Tue, 30 January 2001, Peter Skye wrote:

>
> And if DNS falls under TCP/IP (it might be UDP, can't remember) I'd like

I think it is usually UDP, but goes to TCP if the messages are over
a certain size, 512 bytes comes to mind.

> to know how to talk to a DNS server *and* how to _be_ a DNS server. (I
> shelved a project a while back because I couldn't figure out how to do
> this.)

I've heard that you usually need to 'read at least 3 books DNS
before setting up your own server.'
As we've seen, the experts in large companies don't always get
this right.
KFWB news even mentioned the CERT alert based on
recent events dealing with DNS.

>
> And if you don't have enough on TCP/IP to fill the time slot I'd sure

'fill the time slot' - for how many years are you talking about? :-)

> like to know more about DHCP (I've read all the RFC's but don't know how
> to construct and send the packets). And then I'd sure like to know more

I'm starting to read a book, 'DHCP A Guide to Dynamic TCP/IP
Network Configuration', Berry Kercheval, Prentice Hall,
0-13-099721-8.

> about BOOTP and its brethren (I read _one_ of the RFCs). Neither DHCP
> nor BOOTP are TCP/IP iirc.
>
> And if all of that doesn't fill up the 90-minute time slot I'd sure like
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Yeah, right! :-)

> ............................
>
> - Peter
>

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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