On Tuesday, 22 May 2007, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
I have it just the other way around :-) I'd rather not have to remember IP's for all of my hosts - that's what DNS is for. So had it not been for compatibility with the BB bb-hosts format, I'd probably have removed the IP address entirely from bb-hosts.
There are some reasons to keep it, one being the case of mail servers load balanced or reverse NAT'd, where you want to monitor the internal IP, but the realities of current email restrictions (result of forward lookup on result of reverse lookup being the same as the IP the connection is from) requiring DNS hold the mail servers NAT'd IP, without multi-view DNS in place ...
Hope that makes sense to someone else ...
Regards, Buchan
-- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)