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From: Joshua Wood <josh@utopian.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a small error in /rc/bin/cpurc
Date: Mon,  5 Nov 2007 04:59:06 -0800
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> > why the resistance to putting your machine into /lib/ndb/local?
>
> I want to have (if possible) only 1 place where I define IP address  
> assignment.
> (+ dns, router, and in case of Plan9 fs+auth server)
> So if i need to change something, I don't need to meditate where else
> should I go.
> But maybe in future I will find some reason to make my /lib/ndb/local
> more accurate.

Maybe you have found a reason. If you want to have only one place to  
define your ip address assignments, DNS, etc, etc, a look at the man  
pages for dns(8), dhcpd(8) and ndb(6) could bring you much happiness.  
You can use plan 9 to provide those infrastructure services for your  
network.

The centralization of network config through ndb was the second of  
two qualities that got us investigating plan9 at my company, and I  
haven't seen another system that approaches the completeness and  
elegance of this approach. DNS without manually making PTR records  
and incrementing serial numbers? PRICELESS.

--
Josh