[SunRescue] hosts file And DNS files??

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:20:15AM -0400, 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

Keep them in there, in case your DNS server craps itself..

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX