IP address variable

[John Miller]

Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> If you have 100 machines, and they all have permanently assigned IP 
> addresses, are you saying you're going to stuff 100 lines of name to 
> address mappings into each machines hosts file? 

No.  That's an inference that you own.

> I dare say that DNS is the defacto name resolver database today, 

I agree completely, but...

> and 
> that almost no one uses hosts to provide anything past resolving 
> localhost 

...if you are unable to think of any 2005 scenarios in which it would be 
good to have a few entries in /etc/hosts, you might want to think on it 
a bit more.