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Re: Adding to hosts in Win98

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From: Mike Mann
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:46
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:32:28 +0000, Anthony R. Gold
<tgold@microvest.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Is there any no way to resolve a local name to an external NAME, a
>kind of local CNAME that changes the request made to DNS, for use
>where I can't be certain that the external name has a fixed address.

Not as far as I know, without running a local resolver.  We are
talking Windows, after all.

Regards, Mike.

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From: Mike Mann <mike@kempston.net>
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Subject: Re: Adding to hosts in Win98
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 20:46:55 +0000
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