Re: Updating /etc/hosts automatically / behavior of sed command

[Dave Baker <dave@dsb3.com>]

On 24 Dec 1999, John Hasler wrote:

> Raphaël HALIMI writes:
> > Fed up with changing my /etc/hosts file by hand each time my IP adress
> > changes (my ISP's server isn't totally stable, and sometimes my IP
> > changes even if I don't reboot),...
> 
> Why do you feel that you need to have your IP address in your /etc/hosts?
> 
> > CURRENT_IP=`/sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE | grep inet | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d " " -f 1`
> 
> CURRENT_IP=`/sbin/route -n | grep $INTERFACE | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
> 

For me, this (second command) gives the IP of the remote site, not of my
machine. The original command correctly gives the IP of the local end of
the link. 

That said, I'm still unsure as to why this needs to be in /etc/hosts ...


-Dave


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