Ow Mun Heng said: > > Sorry to reply to myself.. but maybe your needs will be met by looking > at dnsmasq > > quote : > Dnsmasq will serve names from the /etc/hosts file on the firewall > machine: If the names of local machines are there, then they can all be > addressed without having to maintain /etc/hosts on each machine. Thanks - someone else suggested it yesterday and I have adopted this solution. It works just *fine* for my situation. Jonathan
