Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else knows more.
I really do need this, I have an app that discovers things on the network and knows their address. This makes it's automated way into DNS but takes a few days, and another app needs to use the fqdn right now. So /etc/hosts is the way to go for the interim three days. I've worked around it by creating /etc/hosts.d/ containing a header and a data file. cat the two and redirect to /etc/hosts.d/hosts and the real hosts file is a symlink to that. It's a sub-directory as none of these apps run as root and only root can modiy the real hosts file. This works well enough, but a supported include mechanism would make life so much simpler, not to mention easier for my colleagues to understand what the blazes I set up :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
