On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Eric Irrgang wrote:

> If your system stays up most of the time, your IP address will probably
> never change anyway.
        Curiously, no matter how much time my sytem was on or off, it
always had the same IP, without exception.

> It seems to me, though, that your hosts file would get modified by the
> dhcp client on your system every time it starts up, though.  Just a
> hunch...  Anyone have any feedback on this before I go experimenting?

        DHCPcd doesn't modify /etc/hosts. There's no need to; any request 
to resolve <myhost>.dorm.utexas.edu simply goes up the chain to the UT
DNS. It seems like /etc/hosts is really an anachronism from the olden days
of yore, when DNS wasn't nearly as universal.


                                                        -Alex

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