Service names vs host names

Over the years, I have learned not to rely on hostnames for important services. Hosts go away, new ones come in. I want to rely on, what I refer to as, service names. For example, instead of relying on a hostname for my ntp server, I have: $ host time time.int.unixathome.org has address 10.55.0.1 This […]

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