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Re: Networking: Round 1
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:52:50 GMT
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In article <3AB21F33.5020108@peeron.com>, Dan Boger  <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
oh, of course - learning how to set up dns and deal with it is every's
geek duty :)  I was just saying that for a smallish setup, it is more
hassle than it's worth...  aside from the learning part :)

Well, yeah. Someone _desperately_ needs to come up with a scaleable solution
that doesn't involve fourteen different file mungings to change a single
entry. Some folks in the local Linux enthusiasts group wrote "DENTS", which
was supposed to solve this problem, but I like my nice easily human
readable data files, thank you very much... Arg.

We had a script a couple jobs ago that would build DNS files based on the
entries in one machine's /etc/hosts file, but that's not really scalable
past one network....

On the other hand, at least it's not Sendmail.

-JDF
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J.D. Forinash                                     ,-.
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The more you learn, the better your luck gets.    `-'



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(...) if you're scripting, why not just write a script that would edit your files for you? that way, you run one command, and it'll update the 14 (or 2 :) files that need updates... (...) even sendmail is manageable - it just needs a little love :) (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) oh, of course - learning how to set up dns and deal with it is every's geek duty :) I was just saying that for a smallish setup, it is more hassle than it's worth... aside from the learning part :) Dan (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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