On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 12:52:27 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 19:09:27 +0000 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > What advice would you give to a user regarding the benefits of a hosts > > file as opposed to more modern techniques? > > By "more modern techniques" I will assume you mean DHCP and DNS. > > Hosts files are simple, easy to do. They have to be propagated and > maintained, so they are obnoxious from time to time.
I was rather hoping for some mention of the role of Avahi and libnss-mdns on the local network amd its minimal maintenamce. -- Brian.
