On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 06:22 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > But you reason for changing the host file makes no sense to me. TThe > hostname yes but not the hosts file. The hosts file contains machine > names you will use for outbound traffic and that should remain > unchanged. The hosts file does *more* than that, that's why you're not seeing the reason. The machine can also use it to work out its own addresses. A DHCP server can change YOUR addresses, and hostname. Modifying the hosts file and resolv.conf file, amongst other files that could be changed, *can* be done to ensure that your machine can work its own addresses out, without needing an external DNS server. A DHCP server can also tell you other addresses to use, such as NTP, NNTP, SMTP servers, and so on. Those addresses could also be added to a hosts file, dynamically, if it were to be beneficial. -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
