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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:50:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiA2XWMzSOW1wB7Cw+_oQSzgctwqXZB_JcPNUB7aFRdW3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51391398.1030100@gmail.com>

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On Mar 7, 2013 5:28 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of
> an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else
> knows more.
>
> I really do need this, I have an app that discovers things on the
> network and knows their address. This makes it's automated way into DNS
> but takes a few days, and another app needs to use the fqdn right now.
> So /etc/hosts is the way to go for the interim three days.
>
> I've worked around it by creating /etc/hosts.d/ containing a header and
> a data file. cat the two and redirect to /etc/hosts.d/hosts and the real
> hosts file is a symlink to that. It's a sub-directory as none of these
> apps run as root and only root can modiy the real hosts file.
>
> This works well enough, but a supported include mechanism would make
> life so much simpler, not to mention easier for my colleagues to
> understand what the blazes I set up :-)
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
>

See resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf

More details later...but nsswitch, at least, is how one can mix hosts, DNS,
NIS and winbind on the same box...

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-07 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 22:24 [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file? Alan McKinnon
2013-03-07 23:50 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2013-03-08  0:29 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08  8:32   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-08 13:40     ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 13:54       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-08 19:50         ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-08 19:55           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 21:49             ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-08 22:36               ` Pandu Poluan
2013-03-09  0:50                 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-09  3:27                   ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09 12:53                     ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-10 21:28                       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 23:09                         ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12  5:05                           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09  0:13               ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-09  0:41                 ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10  1:42                   ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-10  4:59                     ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-10 21:09                       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10  5:19                     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-10 21:07                       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-10 21:43                         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-10 22:02                           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11  4:00                         ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-11  4:37                           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11  8:22                           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-11 22:45                             ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-11 23:39                               ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12  3:58                                 ` Walter Dnes
2013-03-12  0:25                               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-12  2:02                               ` Michael Mol
2013-03-12 11:29                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-13  0:26                                   ` [Bulk] " Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-11 23:31                             ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12  0:37                               ` Alan McKinnon
2013-03-09  0:45                 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-09  3:21                   ` Michael Mol
2013-03-09 12:53                     ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-10 22:00                       ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11  1:56                         ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-03-11  2:33                           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-11 22:34                         ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-03-12  3:36                           ` Michael Mol
2013-03-08 15:39   ` Florian Philipp
2013-03-08  4:30 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-03-08  8:23   ` Alan McKinnon

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