9 Jul
2014
9 Jul
'14
12:33 p.m.
On 9 July 2014 11:29, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I think you'd find that would produce all sorts of weird errors at boot time.
I don't see why it would; the file would be there at boot time (albeit not the latest copy if you've made changes and Dropbox hasn't sync'd them yet), and there's no reason why you can't edit the file after booting (changes take effect immediately, albeit that applications frequently cache DNS results).
A bit of clever scripting might even allow you to pull in a different hosts file depending on something location specific (eg the IP address you've received via DHCP), generating the link to the appropriate hosts file in a network startup script. That might accommodate some of your other concerns.
Mark
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