From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELZj9-0008H8-8l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:16:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9157WBa024413; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 05:07:32 GMT Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9153qnp005949 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 05:03:53 GMT Received: from [63.196.198.125] (helo=sarge.electronerdia.net) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ELZen-00010v-14 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:11:33 -0400 Received: from sheila.electronerdia.net (sheila.electronerdia.net [192.168.1.32]) by sarge.electronerdia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C304BFC038 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: John Myers To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:13:52 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <003101c5c43b$6ec07b70$4501010a@jnetlab.lcl> In-Reply-To: <003101c5c43b$6ec07b70$4501010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1481997.DKJDPaye4b"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509301513.53093.electronerd@monolith3d.com> X-ELNK-Trace: 8839a2c17b2169aa1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec795f7d9f53279a73ff797065a4591184a9350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 63.196.198.125 X-Archives-Salt: c1ad50d4-36e6-4ad3-82c5-9e989fd220cb X-Archives-Hash: 6239867646ec6a897112601011bd02aa --nextPart1481997.DKJDPaye4b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:46, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ? > > The easiest way is not to bother. Use a local dns server to provide host > lookups. > > I believe on the gentoo wiki you'll find a setup for a caching dns proxy > where the most lookups will be forwarded to a regular dns but you can sti= ll > provide local host lookups and reverse lookups. > > Works great for me and I don't have to worry about whatever /etc/hosts > contains. Also ensures that new windows clients added to the network don= 't > need their files updated, either. In fact, the default BIND install will do the forwarding. I don't know if i= t's=20 caching, but it definately works well on my (small) home network. I use=20 Webmin for management, and it works great. I also use ISC dhcpd to assign m= y=20 systems their static internal IP addresses by their MAC address, and to giv= e=20 the location of the DNS server, so I don't have to do any network=20 configuration on my clients. It really works well for me. --nextPart1481997.DKJDPaye4b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDPbihvqDgVb4O7CURAmZDAJ9VMgOuneK+v+gyZsnR5G3PNTN6swCePU7G HYtsmQ7Ao8vNWbF7MCfhXrs= =uPJZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1481997.DKJDPaye4b-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list