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#4 Re: Automatic/Dynamic configuration of hostnames for rolling out labs Posted by daemon (155.232.xx.xx) on Wed 18 Oct 2006 at 22:47 Like I said in the article, there are probably many ways to do what I described. I just fomred the idea while flicking through some random manpages and it seemed quite elegant and solved an minor issue I'd been pondering for a while. So I thought I'd share it. Your suggestion would ultimately provide the same outcome, but I liked the idea of leveraging my new found knowledge ;-) As for pulling a hostname at boot time being a burden, I doubt that's really that much -- it's a small DNS lookup (and if DNS is down, we have bigger problems ;-), and the boxes don't really go down that often except for the occasional power outage... Cheers.

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