[SunRescue] hosts file And DNS files??

[Michael S. Schiller]

At the moment I basically copied the /etc/inet/hosts file to
/etc/inet/hosts.orig then edited it down to just 2 entries, the localhost
entry, and the machine's entry. This way I can restore the original hosts
file should I need to, and this way I can easily detect if the dns craps
itself :)

-Mike

I wouldn't mind setting up some slave servers on some of the other machines,
yet another project within a project.

Kevin Loch wrote:

> The advantage to the host file is if your DNS server is unreachable,
> you will experience huge timeout lags on certain things.
>
> KL
>
> "Michael S. Schiller" wrote:
> >
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I've finally done something I've wanted to do for a long time. That is
> > write DNS files for my local network of 10 machines. Now the silly
> > question is this: Do I leave all the systems listed in the hosts file,
> > or now that DNS works properly for them do I delete all the systems
> > other than localhost and the actual machine's hostname? Is there any
> > advantage to either leaving all the entries in the /etc/hosts file as
> > they are, so that the DNS files and the hosts files would be redundant,
> > or would things work better if I deleted most of the systems out of the
> > /etc/hosts file? Thanks.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
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