9 Jun
2005
9 Jun
'05
23:13
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 19:03 -0400, ken wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
Yes it does if you are only using DHCP for this info. Any host name would be what you have in /etc/hosts.
Negative. /etc/HOSTNAME holds the hostname of the machine it resides on. /etc/hosts is something completely different... it can hold the names and IPs of machines which you don't want to rely on DNS for.
And can also be in /etc/hosts which can also be used for name resolution. That's what it was used for before bind was written. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge