On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 13:53:01 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, January 23, 2022 1:26:56 PM EST Felix Miata wrote: > > Greg Wooledge composed on 2022-01-23 08:42 (UTC-0500): > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:50:56AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >> As far as I can tell (with my limited understanding of DNS) it only > > >> makes it easier to share /etc/hosts with no obvious downside. > > > > > > If that actually works, that's great news for Gene. It means he can > > > duplicate a single /etc/hosts file across all systems without needing > > > to bolt on a unique per-system header afterward. > > > > I've been sharing the very same hosts file among all my PCs for well > > over a decade, probably closer to two. > > And I have been for 2 decades and change as it once had an amiga as one > of its clients.
What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts file as opposed to more modern techniques? -- Brian.
