Re: a little jessie whinage
On Oct 11, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote:
> I am still learning.
Good for you; most of us are :-)
> I can't help asking why you would not be using
> something like dnsmasq instead of /etc/hosts on a server? Isn't it more
> reliable?
Probably. /etc/hosts is just what the admin claimed last time the file was updated. Something like ifconfig, or some other similar software, would have a much better chance of getting the IP right because it could just look up what was actually assigned to the interface(s) when it was last brought up.
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Glenn English
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