Re: Content of /etc/ethers

["Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com>]

Thank you for mentioning "dnsmasq".  I do the same thing on my home network and it works very well.
Rick

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024, at 9:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do
>> they do with the contents?
>
> AFAIK it's mostly unused nowadays.  I have such a file on my DHCP
> server, where `dnsmasq` reads it (lets me give static IP addresses to
> some of my machines, even though they're configured via DHCP,
> i.e. they're "dynamically static").
>
>
>         Stefan