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Old 9th December 2010
jackthechemist jackthechemist is offline
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Huh...well that's starting to make MUCH more sense now!

Thank you!

(I'm still not sure which mechanism is responsible for ensuring hosts share and learn the host/domain names of other hosts in a LAN--likely some type of ARP protocol methinks--but that I can discover myself.)

One last lingering obscurity remains...while it makes perfect sense on a scale as large as the Internet, is there any practical reason for hosts in small LANs to have domain names???

(lol, that last question was 20 lines long before I condensed it :P)

***Comon people, don't make jggimi answer ALL the questions!***

Jack
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