On 26-Feb-99 Clyde Wilson wrote:
Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine
on the lan and have the other machines use it?
It's called NIS. Give it a peek.
Is it possible to have /etc/hosts on only one machine
on the lan and have the other machines use it?
Either make that one host a DNS server and point all the other machines to
it, or make it a YP server and ypbind them to it.
Will
you can achive this using nis. alternatevely you could create
a symlink from /etc/hosts to an nfs mounted parition where
you would actually keep the host file. i would however *not*
recommend this (second) option. if your network went south
you would not have any name resolution, if in fact you
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