khantastic
March 6th, 2009, 04:10 AM
Hello.
Is there an easy and flexible way to share hosts-file information for different subnets, i.e. IP aliases in a centralized localization?
In a development platform we have 5 different subnets. Each subnet consists of servers and dedicated hardware units. If we access the different units from the same computer, only the local /etc/hosts-file needs to store IP aliases.
However, the different units will be accessed from more than one computer, thus each PC needs to maintain their hosts-file. Changing IP for one of the units or simply adding a new unit, all PCs have to update their hosts-file. This results too often in inconsistency in hosts-files.
One of the servers, Ubuntu 8.04, have 5 network cards installed and are able to access every unit in the test environment. Is there a way to share this hosts-file to other computers in an automated way?
Any suggestions on how to solve this? Thanks.
Is there an easy and flexible way to share hosts-file information for different subnets, i.e. IP aliases in a centralized localization?
In a development platform we have 5 different subnets. Each subnet consists of servers and dedicated hardware units. If we access the different units from the same computer, only the local /etc/hosts-file needs to store IP aliases.
However, the different units will be accessed from more than one computer, thus each PC needs to maintain their hosts-file. Changing IP for one of the units or simply adding a new unit, all PCs have to update their hosts-file. This results too often in inconsistency in hosts-files.
One of the servers, Ubuntu 8.04, have 5 network cards installed and are able to access every unit in the test environment. Is there a way to share this hosts-file to other computers in an automated way?
Any suggestions on how to solve this? Thanks.