From kde-core-devel  Tue Apr 20 16:45:34 2004
From: Maksim Orlovich <mo002j () mail ! rochester ! edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:45:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Qt-Addon classes merge
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Imagine a simple two-machine home LAN. You don't want to waste resources
> in running named. So, what do you do? Use your ISPs DNS servers
> in /etc/resolv.conf and put your two machines' names and IP addresses
> in /etc/hosts. This HAS to work. The only reason it currently works is
> that I've asked people not to do asynchronous lookups (because it's
> broken), thereby never using QDns.

Hmm. When I was looking through QDns code a while ago, it read in
/etc/hosts itself, and added it to its table. So it should work with QDns,
too, at least in theory.