From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 17:39: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.aracnet.com (mail2.aracnet.com [216.99.193.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4EE37C1D0 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail2.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09303; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:39:10 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id RAA20942; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:38:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 17:38:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hosts file across machines? In-Reply-To: <020d01bfe54e$96d64da0$0200000a@danco> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Thanks... sometimes the simple answer is TOO simple... :) Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message