Hi recent discussion was about /etc/hosts to have the name for a local machine rather than the complexity of DNS views. [IE a local machine reffering to a www page 'virtual-hosted' to a local machine gets the modem setup page, not the intended page]
If you do not use views then EVERY machine has to have suitable /etc/hosts and if it is a mobile machine and if it is used outside the ADSL/Modem/Firewall circle then the /etc/hosts entries wreck havoc. So in this case /etc/hosts is useful in a very limited context. Just for the record, in case you, like me. act faster than you think :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
