some really basic networking questions

[Matthew Carpenter]

Fair enough.  

What happens when it is handed a new IP address, or does RedHat put all
the names as 127.0.0.1?  Most of the distros I've run have either updated
/etc/hosts or stuck all the names/aliases as 127.0.0.1 (which seems like
the logical thing to do).  I apologize.  This is probably the way things
have gone, which is good.  Although my /etc/hosts file in COL STILL bears
the following header:
#------------------------------------------------------------
#
# /etc/hosts file, automatically generated by DHCP boot
# script -- do not edit.
#
#------------------------------------------------------------

Are you using dhcpcd or dhclient.  I am using dhclient on COL, and dhcpcd
on MDK.  Mandrake doesn't include a header, but it maintains the hostname
as it's current IP address.  This is updated by the "dhcp subsystem"
although probably not by the actual program running the dhcp client.



On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:44:38 -0400 (EDT)
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> Redhat.  Even if just 1 distro doesn't folllow the rule, that
> automatically means its not law.
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > What distro(s)?
> >
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:27:44 -0400 (EDT)
> > "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> >
> > >   DHCP doesn't touch /etc/hosts in any way shape or
> > > form on any of the 15+ boxes that i'm responsible for.
> > >
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