From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 17:27:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF2E37BCC5 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA38900; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <020d01bfe54e$96d64da0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Rick Hamell" , Subject: Re: Hosts file across machines? Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:27:08 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How would I go about propigating my hosts file across multiple >machines? I.e. I want one central file that is updated, then all other >machines can grab it when needed. Thanks! The best would be to set up a DNS server for your LAN. Short of that, you can set up clients to periodically FTP your master /etc/hosts file via a cron job and 'fetch'. On Windows machines you might be able to FTP (or plain-old copy, if you're running Samba) from a DOS batch file that you run periodically from one of the many schedulers available. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message