Sean Carolan wrote: >> (Make sure you pick .dummy so as not to interfere with any other DNS.) >> >> In theory you could leave off .dummy, but then you risk hostname being >> completed with the search domain in resolv.conf, which creates the >> problems already mentioned with putting hostname.domain.com in >> /etc/hosts. (I have not tested this at all!) > > I will probably just leave this decision to the application > architects, with the recommendation that we should simply use DNS as > intended... I wonder if what they need is another IP being asserted on your NIC.... mark