[geeks] DHCP silliness

Geoff Reed geeks at sunhelp.org
Sun Nov 25 01:59:38 CST 2001


At 01:52 AM 11/25/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Yes.  But on the up side, just like they fixed the Unexplained Application
>Exception that plauged us in Windows 3.0, it appears that they have now fixed
>the BSOD the same way, thus ensuring that XP will never be superior.

Um, they didn't fix it, they just renamed it :)  UAE's became IPF's  (this 
was explained to us on day one of our windows 95 support training when I 
worked at microsoft in Personal operating Systems support)

>In the mean time, I think I figured out how to fix my problem without 
>having to
>bring the Win98 box back as a DHCP server again.  At least, my notebook seems
>to be working fine now that the netbsd box gives out a different DNS server w/
>it's DHCP info.

You could also set up your NetBSD box with a caching only DNS service on it :)




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