From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 19:56:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791E537B551 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0025.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.250.25]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA29155; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00386; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:54:40 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rick Hamell Cc: "Dan O'Connor" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hosts file across machines? Message-ID: <20000703195440.C268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <020d01bfe54e$96d64da0$0200000a@danco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from hamellr@aracnet.com on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 05:38:58PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message