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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.

-- 
Glenn English




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