Re: Including Internet addresses in FAQs

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npc@minotaur.jpl.nasa.gov
Fri, 15 Jul 94 15:59:48 PDT

Kent Landfield said:
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> >
> > Before I take the IP addresses out of my FAQ, I'd like to hear some
> > debate. Who feels strongly either way? Are the IP addresses useful
> > at all? Or should they be trashed and burned?
>
> More hassle then they are worth. I suggest dumping them.

On the other hand, there are still folks that hold out from running
DNS clients, often for good reasons. Also, there are a lot of mac/PC
users that admin their own machines and don't know about DNS resolvers.

If the IP address is stable, I don't see any reason to not have them.
If the IP address of the host is pretty dynamic as compared to the
name, then there might be good reason to not include them.

I suggest not suggesting a policy on this, but instead leave it up to
the individual FAQ maintainers with the only caveat being that if you
put IP addresses in the FAQ's, make certain you keep them up to date.

Nick Christenson
npc@minotaur.jpl.nasa.gov

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