Tony Nugent wrote:
> Geez, it must have come across that I don't know what I'm doing. :)
Sorry, the use of hosts made me think it was a beginner question. Having
seen your name so many times I should have known better...
> However, I am having to deal with weird situations where DNS might
> be unavailable (or "contradictory") for some reason. For example,
> if a router goes down (bloody ciscos!) then we need to get into the
> server via a "back door" - and things like sshd don't like it at
> all if it can't resolve IPs. I also have to deal with using two dns
> servers on the network, one for the "public" address space, another
> for our "private" internal network. There are all sort of little
> tweaks with things like /etc/resolv.conf that I have needed to do to
> make things work smoothly, and resorting to /etc/hosts is one such
> kludge I am using in some situations.
>
> This last problem I have been experiencing was mostly more of an
> annoyance than anything else, but turning multi on in hosts.conf
> looks like the solution.
Then it sounds like, yes, it is complicated enough you have your own
reasons and without actually being more intimately involved in your
network I couldn't offer a better solution involving DNS. So, in short,
I stand corrected and will now shut up...
Have a good one.
- Matt
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