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[Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]

2006-05-01 09:58:47
Subject: [Veritas-bu] FQDNs or Not ? [recommendations please]
From: austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com (Austin Murphy)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 09:58:47 -0400
> > >> 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