glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
I have a documentation folder for each Linux image I've created. I
don't have any entries on me creating entries in the 'hosts' file.
Where is the hosts own IP address configured?
that is installation and distribution-dependant. Not normally in
/etc/hosts tho - putting it in there means it has to be in two places.
Is entries in the /etc/hosts file, really required?
Or is it "older" technology, that normally is replaced by some other
function?
Well, not until the network is running. I do remember one system
that tried to start NFS before DNS, with the solution being to
change the order that they were started. Normally at least a
secondary nameserver should be nearby, if not local. Is a
network access faster or slower than a disk access?
It depends:-)
On peecees, networks going through modems are slow, disks attached via
USB are slow (faster than modems, slower than disks on firewire, ATA,
SATA, SCSi etc). Gigabit networks are faster than lots of disks, 10-Gb
more so. OTOH mainframe disks, virtual networks....
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Cheers
John
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