On 4/6/2016 11:34 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 6 April 2016 at 15:45, Mark Haney<mark.haney at vifprogram.com> wrote: > >> >Not sure about everyone else, but I always put my hostname in /etc/hosts. >> >Maybe that's from years of not always having DNS available back when the >> >earth was cooling. >> > >> > > This behaviour plays havoc with templated VMs though or any time you can't > be sure the IP there will be correct ... indeed, most all my servers except a few key infrastructure servers are configured with DHCP reservations. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz