Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot
On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 12:52:27 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:09:27 +0000
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts
> > file as opposed to more modern techniques?
>
> By "more modern techniques" I will assume you mean DHCP and DNS.
>
> Hosts files are simple, easy to do. They have to be propagated and
> maintained, so they are obnoxious from time to time.
I was rather hoping for some mention of the role of Avahi and
libnss-mdns on the local network amd its minimal maintenamce.
--
Brian.
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