[Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?

[Duncan]

"Christian Pernegger" <address@hidden>
posted address@hidden,
excerpted below, on  Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:51:57 +0200:

>>  Meanwhile, I'd love to know if my 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc, idea
>>  works!
> 
> I imagine it would but I fail to see how that a) is better than the
> current workaround of editing /etc/hosts and adding a few more names for
> 127.0.0.1. That gives the ability to "name" servers as a byproduct.
> b) gets rid of the root-cause-bug in pan, namely that it assumes
> (somewhere) that the host is a unique identifier by itself. In the
> config file servers get IDs but apparently they're not used throughout.
> 
> Hmm, I imagine if you couldn't edit /etc/hosts it would still be of
> value ...

Agreed...

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