On 2009-02-05, Erling Ringen Elvsrud <erlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I prefer to keep my /etc/hosts files as clean as possible, but addding
> the nodes own name should not be a problem. Starting nscd
> should not be a problem either, but I'm not that familiar with it so I
> feel it is safer
> to just add the line in /etc/hosts. What do you think? What it the
> contents of your /etc/hosts?
My hosts contains these 3, which I think is the RHEL5 default:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.10.18 shortname.example.com shortname
I think it's important to be able to resolve the names for local interfaces
without network availability. Otherwise I think some services might fail to
start.
In addition we run 'nscd'. I can't really see why you should not want to run
'nscd'. It takes off a lot of load from both DNS and other name services (nis,
ldap, other?).
-jf
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