is bind needed at all?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9n6era$nic at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Brad Knowles  <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
>
>At 4:41 PM -0700 9/5/01, JOHNSON, ERIK *Internet* (PBI) wrote:
>
>>  Uh, Pete, I think mydomain.net is a hypothetical term.
>
>	Okay, then.  Try filling in the real domain name in question, and 
>maybe we can provide a real answer.

Why?  He didn't ask us to debug a problem, he just asked a general
question about whether he needs to operate his own name server.  Since you
don't need to send a query to anything to answer this, why do you care what
domain it is?

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