IP address variable
John Miller
fedora at n4vu.com
Wed Feb 16 22:59:35 UTC 2005
Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> If you have 100 machines, and they all have permanently assigned IP
> addresses, are you saying you're going to stuff 100 lines of name to
> address mappings into each machines hosts file?
No. That's an inference that you own.
> I dare say that DNS is the defacto name resolver database today,
I agree completely, but...
> and
> that almost no one uses hosts to provide anything past resolving
> localhost
...if you are unable to think of any 2005 scenarios in which it would be
good to have a few entries in /etc/hosts, you might want to think on it
a bit more.
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