On 17/07/11 23:30, Ed W wrote: > Additionally, I failed to realise that you can put the "dhcp-hostsfile=" > line in your conf file (to avoid potentially hacking a distro supplied > init file). I personally find this option more useful than /etc/ethers... > > And yes it does work nicely in practice. In fact on my Mac, leaving > both adaptors live with the same IP address, mostly seems to work as you > might desire. It does seem to occasionally flip flop between adaptors > and on reflection I never thought to check that I'm not flooding the > network with spurious arp replies... Obviously you are meant to disable > one of the adaptors...
Indeed, in some respects it /appears/ to be superior to /etc/hosts and /etc/ethers. With a hostfile type solution the names of systems are always resolved irrespective of if they are online or not (obviously!). With the dhcp-hostsfile solution hosts which are not connected to the network do not resolve. Many programs will wait several seconds before concluding that a host is down, however, a failed DNS resolution normally results in an instant error. Regards, Freddie.
