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Re: Central HOSTS file?



Mark McCall wrote:

> I can edit the HOSTS file on each individual machine, but is there a
way to
> hold a central HOSTS file on my server and point each machine to it?

You could run your own DNS server locally. I wouldn't recommend using
the standard BIND [1] as it is wonderfully complicated. However,
something smaller and easier such as PowerDNS would probably work. These
can be configured to do a DNS passthrough unless the domain name is in a
banned list.

[1] - http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/
[2] - http://www.powerdns.com/

--
Barry Myles



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