[SunRescue] hosts file And DNS files??

[Kevin Loch]

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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