On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Rasmussen <tho...@gibfest.dk> wrote: > On 08.06.2012 11:04, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> >> We find it useful, and a significant aid to maintainability and >> readability >> of configuration files. > > Hello, > > What happens if your server reboots while the DNS > server is down/unavailable ?
Shouldn't this still work if the machine has its own hostname associated with its IP in /etc/hosts? Is that not still common practice? I can see the logic here. By putting the IP in /etc/hosts and the hostname in the ifconfig, you only have to edit the address in one place if it ever changes. This reminds me that the old (pre-NWAM) way to configure Solaris with a static IP was to put the IP and hostname in /etc/hosts, the hostname in /etc/hostname.e1000g0 (or whatever your interface name was), the gateway address in /etc/defaultrouter, and the network address and netmask in /etc/netmasks. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
