Re: Changing hostname / IP address

Posted in 2004

Andrew Hamm — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:19:20 +1100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Five Cats wrote: > > There are some things they (the users) don't need to know, and which > server they are using is one of them IMHO. However I think that even > if we were able to do this (but they are not using DNS and I think are > using a mixture of IP addresses & names to access their servers) they > would notice a big speed improvement. ;-) so fire up DNS and slowly wean 'em off the hosts files. Is it an NT network? 2000 server's DNS is quite good these days, it interacts nicely with WINS these days, and DHCP politely notifies DNS of it's decisions. UNIX network? Welcome home! Piece 'o pizza to get DNS working there.