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>
> Is that what you want? A local network defined entirely by hosts files?
> You can do that. It's easy. Just edit your /etc/hosts files to contain
> the names and addresses of your machines.
>
> In this scenario, your resolv.conf file will be used only to look up
> hosts that live outside of your local network ("in the cloud"). You
> won't CARE what the default DNS domain name is, because you aren't using
> it. Your local host lookups will be done by matching the strings that
> you put in your hosts files.
>
IMHO: "hosts" files could only be used in the network that uses static IP
addresses.
In this case neither DHCP client nor NetworkManager should be used, so
nothing should touch ``resolve.conf``.
And that means the DNS server could be used.
Sysadmin simply runs DNS server for the "younetwork.name" domain, adds "A"
record for each PC manually, and
then adds "nameserver" and "domain" to the "resolve.conf" on each station.
Latter is required to access "pc1.yournetwork.name" as "pc1".
To rename a machine one can simply change "A" record on DNS and "hostname"
on station.
All changes are persistent, because nothing overwrites resolve.conf
Changing name in two places (station and DNS) is easier than changing it on
all "hosts" files across your network.
