On Mar 7, 2013 5:28 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > >
See resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf More details later...but nsswitch, at least, is how one can mix hosts, DNS, NIS and winbind on the same box...
