[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

[Terry]

On 7/28/05, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:

> >
> I'm glad to hear that sanity (one location for a unique source of
> information) is beginning to prevail.  I can understand and accept
> different locations for fundamentally different environments like Samba,
> DNS, NIS and NetWare but having a bunch of places for the "plain old
> host name" isn't prudent.

It's like....
If you move to a new home, your address will change.
Your friends will not know where your new home is until you tell them.
 They're not going to automatically know, you have to manually tell
them.   You have to fill out a change of address card, send it to the
post office, tell your friends and creditors your new address, ....
etc. etc.   If everyone had the same friends and creditors and
correspondents, the process could probably be automated to a certain
extent, but that's just not the case.
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