[Nottingham] Two Entries in /etc/hosts

[Martin]

On 28/04/16 13:21, Jason Irwin wrote:
> "hostname" sets the name of the PC itself. Based on your previous
> reply, I assumed needed to do that too for some reason.
> As I said, you really don't want to be dynamically updating
> "/etc/hosts" if you can avoid it.
> Consider updating your dnsmasq/bind9 config files instead.
> In fact, for dnsmasq, I am pretty sure you could switch between a
> "home" config and an "away" config. Not tried it myself.
> 
> Actually adding-to/updating whichever file is a simply matter of
> echo/sed after a few checks; I don't think there's an actual command
> to do it.
> I can send you a template script off-list if you like.

Or just link between two pre-set hosts files?...


Mmmm...

This is sounding like a Jason NLUG Howto page... ;-) ;-)


:-)

Cheers,
Martin


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