Use of the /etc/hosts file

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I believe so.  I'm using DNS, and it's working fine.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:03 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Use of the /etc/hosts file
> 
> 
> If I want the status maps to use the hostname of the clients 
> that are being
> monitored rather than their fully qualified domain names,
> will adding their information to the nagios server's 
> /etc/hosts file work?
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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