Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot
On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 15:14:54 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
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> Greg Wooledge composed on 2022-01-23 15:01 (UTC-0500):
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> > * After a change is made, it has to be replicated across your entire
> > network. Manually.
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> But trivial.
Manual intervention as opposed to no intervention. What price
libnss-mdns?
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> > * Any "visitor" machines that are temporarily added to your network will
> > need to be configured manually, and they will have zero knowledge of
> > the other hosts on the network. Even if you know their names, there
> > won't be any DNS in which you can look up their addresses.
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> This can be an advantage. I don't need or want visitors' cell phones accessing my
> machines willy nilly.
You obviously do not trust your network setup sufficiently to allow
access to it from other devices. Something to be attemded to.
--
Brian.
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