James Carlson writes: > This saves me from a lot of grief if I ever have to renumber the box. > In most cases, all I have to change is the /etc/hosts entry, and I'm > good to go. (Yes, some parts like /etc/resolv.conf are unusually > annoying about such things.)
Another possibility would be to be able to say something like this in /etc/hosts: @bge0 myhost ... and have the 'files' backend pull the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from the named interface. That'd also do away with my repeating-magic- numbers concern. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
