hosts file duplication
Jim Reid
jim at rfc1035.com
Thu Jul 6 07:27:51 UTC 2000
>>>>> "Will" == Will Boege <will at SpAz.lakes.com> writes:
Will> I work at an ISP that has hundreds of websites that we host
Will> In order to save a few minutes when I set up a new site, I
Will> made a .hosts file for each box, and began to use that hosts
Will> file in the named.conf for every site on each box with that
Will> particular IP
You meant to say you use the same zone file for each zone.
Will> Is this OK DNS practice? Will it cause me any problems down
Will> the road?
How you manage your DNS servers is your business. If you decide to do
this in a way that's clumsy or easy to administer, that's your choice.
After all it's you who does that administration so whatever works for
you....
Personally, I recommend that each zone gets its own zone file. Even if
it's possible to make every zone "share" the one file. Eventually one
zone will differ from another in one way. This will then break your
one-zone-fits-all strategy and any administrative or maintenance
procedures surrounding it.
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