Re: distributed.net and seti@home

[hypnos () M-NET ARBORNET ORG (hypnos)]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Shashi Dookhee wrote:

> Doesnt Seti@home and rc5/etc use IP addresses, and not hostnames?  That
> would make changing the DNS recordz futile, as they wouldnt need to resolve
> anything ;)

Someone else pointed out that SETI uses names, and
rc5 does also.  I jsut deleted the rc5 client because
it couldn't resolve "us.v27.distributed.net", even
though I did an nslookup on it, and my networks DNS
server had it in it's cache... Oh well...

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