Its getting rather dangerous answering posts these days ... you answer
the question as written BUT thats not what was actually wanted.

Should we start a development group for a "psi" module for linux? :-)

Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote:

>On 09 Nov 2003 08:25:56 GMT, Vitamx wrote:
>
>> My windows hosts file on this computer only has the localhost and
>> yet Internet explorer is on the WWW.
>
>Absolutly correct. You got it.
>
>> Now my question was how Windows resolves names and ip addresses?
>> You did not answer it.
>
>I did, you had ask about a lan (local area network) not wan (wide area
>network)
>
>> In the Unix world, the computer is given the ip address of the DNS
>> and so on and so on.
>
>And in the windows world you give it the DNS server ip addresses.
>Works the same way.
>
>> How is it done in the Windows world?
>
>You add the DNS servers through a gui interface.
>
>> And this is a linux networking question because it is so important
>> to integrate Linux with Windows and people that ask questions about
>> it dont need insolent responses.
>
>No you are now asking how windows does DNS and that has nothing to do
>with linux.
>
>Put the question to one of the 31+ Microsoft network news groups.

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