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Re: alternative to /etc/hosts


  • Subject: Re: alternative to /etc/hosts
  • From: "Philip D. Wasson" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:54:02 -0400


On Aug 14, 2007, at 17:20, Josef Andrysek wrote:

Hi,
the problem is that I want my application to run on clients computers and I can not want them to configure something.

Do the libraries that you're calling accept ports in addition to host names? If so, perhaps you could always give "localhost" to the libraries plus a port that your app is listening on. When the library connects to the specified port, your code would open a connection to the desired host and pass data between the two connections, kind of like a NAT server. You'd probably need one listening port per mapped service.


On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Nathan Duran wrote:

Hi All,
I need to dynamically define a dns records, which will be valid for
my application only.
Writing into /etc/hosts solves this problem only partially. It is
valid for all applications and it requires root permissions to write
something into /etc/hosts.


Is there please any possible solution?  My application uses some
third-party libraries, so I can not simply change the code
responsible for domains resolving.

Thanks

Josef

You can easily configure BIND to allow dynamic updates, but I'm not sure how
you would go about limiting the records' resolvability to one specific
application.


--
Nathan S. Duran
Principal
KHI Ltd. Co., LLC
www.khiltd.com



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