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

When you have thousands of hosts and hundreds that get added/removed daily?


On 5/1/06, Austin Murphy <austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > > >> 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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