Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot
On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 13:53:01 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Sunday, January 23, 2022 1:26:56 PM EST Felix Miata wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge composed on 2022-01-23 08:42 (UTC-0500):
> > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:50:56AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > >> As far as I can tell (with my limited understanding of DNS) it only
> > >> makes it easier to share /etc/hosts with no obvious downside.
> > >
> > > If that actually works, that's great news for Gene. It means he can
> > > duplicate a single /etc/hosts file across all systems without needing
> > > to bolt on a unique per-system header afterward.
> >
> > I've been sharing the very same hosts file among all my PCs for well
> > over a decade, probably closer to two.
>
> And I have been for 2 decades and change as it once had an amiga as one
> of its clients.
What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts
file as opposed to more modern techniques?
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Brian.
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