<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Simon Kelley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@thekelleys.org.uk">simon@thekelleys.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
/etc/hosts syntax would be difficult to translate into equivalent<br>
command line options, for consistency, something like<br>
<br>
--a-record = <name>,<address><br>
--aaaa-record = <name>, <address><br>
<br>
and<br>
<br>
--host-record = <name>, <address><br>
<br>
which does a both forward and backwards would be possible, I've<br>
considered this before, but most people seem to like to split off such<br>
data into a separate /etc/hosts or another hosts-like file<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you're taking votes, I'd like to see this, it'd be nice to have one centralized file for a dns config. It would be nice to keep SRV/TXT records right next to their matching A record, bind style. Having PTRs in the same file would put you one step above bind :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe take it one step further, --host-record=<address>,<name>[,<alias>,<alias>,...] so we can keep the CNAMEs right there too.</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br></div>
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