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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:54:40 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Rick Hamell <hamellr@aracnet.com>
Cc:        "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hosts file across machines?
Message-ID:  <20000703195440.C268@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007031738361.16582-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:38:58PM -0700
References:  <020d01bfe54e$96d64da0$0200000a@danco> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007031738361.16582-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:38:58PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
> > 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... :)

You can also use NIS to share a host map, see yp(4).
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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