> 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.
I think the issue raised with using DNS/NIS for labeling addresses was that the mapping for "myhost" at the time of address creation may well be different than the mapping at the time of deletion. So if we are going to use address labeling, the namespace management has to be local to the machine and tracked in some predictable way. --Sowmini _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
