On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 23:13, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > John Miller wrote: > > ...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. > > OK - I'll bite. What scenario might you be thinking of? > A network administration machine where you want to be able to get at the servers by name even if the DNS server goes haywire. You DO give your servers fixed IPs don't you? I have a habit of naming the servers in a site the same whenever I can. So a tunnel script with the external name of the site and the internal name of the server gets me there, because I add IPs and names to my master hosts file on this central office system as/when I build a network for a client. Takes 2 minutes to do, saves hours when you add it all up. Doesn't work for dynamically assigned workstation IPs of course. But then they aren't my direct responsibility :p -- Tony Dietrich ------------- UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody.
