[Dnsmasq-discuss] --addn-hosts and --hostsdir
Hongyi Zhao
hongyi.zhao at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 03:59:37 BST 2019
Simon Kelley <simon at thekelleys.org.uk> 于2019年10月8日周二 上午1:51写道:
>
> On 02/10/2019 07:25, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:16:18AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The manpage said that:
> >>
> >> ---
> >> -H, --addn-hosts=<file>
> >> Additional hosts file. Read the specified file as well as
> >> /etc/hosts. If --no-hosts is given, read only the specified
> >> file. This option may be repeated for more than one additional
> >> hosts file. If a directory is given, then read all the files
> >> contained in that directory.
> >>
> >> --hostsdir=<path>
> >> Read all the hosts files contained in the directory. New or
> >> changed files are read automatically. See --dhcp-hostsdir for
> >> details.
> >> ---
> >>
> >> According to the above description, the --addn-hosts can do all the
> >> things done by --hostsdir,
> >
> > No.
> >
> > The difference is
> > New or changed files are read automatically.
> >
> >
> >
>
> What he said. And the reason they both exist is that --addn-hosts
> existed first, and when the ability to automatically read files was
> added, there was a desire not to introduce bugs in existing
> configurations by subtly changing the behaviour of the existing option.
Thanks for pointing out this.
>
>
> Simon.
>
>
>
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