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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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