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

2005-09-30 Thread John Myers
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

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

2005-09-28 Thread 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

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

2005-09-28 Thread 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

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

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

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

2005-09-28 Thread 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