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From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: How to create /etc/hosts from zone
Keywords: hosts
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Date: 15 Nov 90 18:52:11 GMT
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another possibility (ie resolving the problem of keeping hosts for stupid
systems and needing a named database) is to keep the /etc/hosts as the
master a use a utility to generate the named database from it. This is
what my HP-UX system does (in a big shell script). Most people find
it easier to keep a hosts file up to date as ity has a much simpler
structure. All you need do is put both the short name and the fully
qualified name for each system.