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Graeme Fowler wrote:
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> ...enough need, that'd be me then. Damn.
neccessity is the mother of invention :-)
> A logical extension of the /etc/hosts idea, if you're running a large cluster
> environment for (say) a web farm, and you already know (because of the vhosts
> definitions) what the DNS names are which your vhosts are using... why not
> setup a local DNS "spoofer" server which takes those A records and reports
> them to the clients as 127.0.0.1?
I remember seeing a setup where a large list of machine.domain were aliased
to 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/hosts file. These were places that the person didn't
want to get pop-up ads and gifs from in his browser.
Joe
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Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization
LMIT, Supporting the EPA Research Triangle Park, NC 919-541-0007
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