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I was having a chat with Chris who was doing some work with some monitoring tools, he was getting rather frustrated and I quote “who uses host files in 2009?”, I understand where he’s coming from, many enterprises use dns as a way of referring and identifying server ip addresses on the network.

Chris’ problem? If they move a server from one network to another, he has to not only update dns, but his host file as well for the monitoring tool they’re testing, at the same time, he was asking, “what if I use DHCP?  Why can’t I load it one time from an Excel spreadsheet/text file, it seems rather high maintenance to add each server individually, or using some complex host file…”

We’ll remain quiet which monitoring tool it was, but for those monitoring tool developers, that I understand have to code for many different environments, can we consider the facility to do a one of upload? It’s not that we’re asking for complete access to your tool, it’s just these kind of things can be the difference between the engineer saying your product is pants, and giving the product the benefit of the doubt. Rant over, time to meet Chris, give him a coffee, find out more so I can contact the vendor, and reboot him in the meantime.

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