On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:07:01PM -0600, linux guy wrote: > Something I should interject here is that it isn't just setting the IP > address of the server. I find the biggest problem is keeping the > /etc/hosts lists current on all the clients. Ouch. That's why you use DNS (of course...you knew that from later comments) > Is there a way to statically assign the IP address to the servers and not > have to update the /etc/hosts file on all the machines ? I know this is > what DNS is supposed to do, but I've never used it that way. If you statically assign the IP addresses, then it wouldn't have to be updated except when a server is changed/added/removed. I've done this in the past with scripts that can be scheduled to run on each machine that pull a master hosts file from a designated main server, but it's far less reliable and desirable than running DNS. > Furthermore, my DNS server would be the local router, not a dedicated PC, > unless we changed that too. You would normally set up a DNS server to provide local name resolution and set it to go to your external DNS servers for addresses outside your local domain. (It gets a lot trickier with "split DNS" if you're running your own outward-facing DNS server, but you're not doing that now, so don't start.) Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
