Re: DNS

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From: 'Dungeon' Dave
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:00

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.. and it came to pass that Ian Northeast 
<ian@house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> uttered forth:
>Robin wrote:
>
>> I will order the book, cos I wanna know what all the lines in the files
>> mean .. but its got it up and running which will make administering the
>> admittedly small domain somewhat easier (like its about 10 machines
>but
>> many have aliases and I was getting VERY bored of copying /etc/host
>> everywhere ... each time somehting got added or changed)
>
>Personally I reckon that the point where it becomes easier to run DNS
>than maintain /etc/hosts is 3 machines. I could be wrong - it might be
>2.
>
>Ian

I've got two DNS servers - but I've also written a script so that the 
hosts file of one machine is automatically updated from the other. I 
extended this to the DNS database files to ensure that both were 
synched.
-- 

"Dungeon" Dave, in anti-harvest mode...

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