Not having to manage /etc/hosts files across multiple servers in a large
environmen, comes to mind for me...


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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Austin
Murphy
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:59 AM
To: veritas-bu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]


> > >> Is it 'best practice' to use FQDN for our Master/Media Servers ?

At my site, I don't control DNS so I don't trust it.  Using /etc/hosts
works very well. We have several domains and I only use hostname, not
FQDN.  Network name resolution is not a problem for me.

For argument's sake, what would be the benefit of using DNS instead of
/etc/hosts?

Austin

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