IP address variable

[Bill Gradwohl]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gradwohl" <bill at ycc.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: IP address variable
>
>
>> Modifying the hosts file isn't a good idea to implement a method for 
>> determining the machines IP address.
>
>
> Are you kidding?  If you set up a machine with an address 192.168.1.2 
> are you seriously saying that you should not set that up in /etc/hosts?
>
> Thomas

Yes. That's what I'm saying. Why bother? What is DNS for?

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