Re: DNS vs /etc/hosts

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Giorgio Pioda]
> Hi,
> 
> as consequence of my crash of yesterday, originated from a corrupted
> db.intern DNS file

Was this caused by <URL: https://bugs.debian.org/710362 >?

> I came to the idea that it would be of benefit to insert at least
> the ldap, kdc, and maybe some other hostname into /etc/hosts; this
> would make possible a regular login with a regular user instead of
> having to work only with root/terminal in case of DNS problems.

The problem with this approach is that it make it very hard to change
subnets (ie use the /subnet-change script), and also very hard to
split services out from tjener when needing to scale appears.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen