[gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[Patrick Marquetecken]

Hi,

Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?

TIA
Patrick

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RE: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[Dave Nebinger]

> 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 still
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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[byron]

Patrick Marquetecken wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
>
>TIA
>Patrick
>
>  
>
This may be a little over kill but, I've found this project
(www.cfengine.com) to be very cool.  Cfengine has tons of functionality
and managing config files across multiple systems just happens to be one
of them.  There is decent documentation on the site plus I've found some
Debian based tutorials here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/223 ,
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/224 ,
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/225 .

It's designed to help Admins manage a large number of Unix systems from
a central location.

Oh, and it's in portage too.

byron
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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:33:54 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Marquetecken wrote:

> Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?

The best way is usually to use only one hosts file. Providing your
computers are networked, and one on them is on 24/7, install dnsmasq on
this box and tell the others to use it as their DNS server.


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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[Paweł Madej]

Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Whats the best way to keep several /etc/host files in sync ?
> 
> TIA
> Patrick
> 

I got that problem few days ago and tried to install MyDNS [1] little 
dns server great for home network. It also has easy admin script written 
in PHP but it is not installed during emerge mydns. So you have to 
unpack package from distfiles and put it into your's apache documentroot.

[1] http://mydns.bboy.net/

Greets
Paweł
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Re: [gentoo-user] keeping hosts file in sync

[John Myers]

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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 still
> 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 it's 
caching, but it definately works well on my (small) home network. I use 
Webmin for management, and it works great. I also use ISC dhcpd to assign my 
systems their static internal IP addresses by their MAC address, and to give 
the location of the DNS server, so I don't have to do any network 
configuration on my clients. It really works well for me.

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