use hostfile ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8fokco$g0d$1 at soap.pipex.net>,
Marc Redmile <marc at thermeoneurope.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if it is possible for "machine A" to read the host file on
>"machine B" to resolve a name ?

Not unless you're using a network file sharing protocol and you make
/etc/hosts on A be a symlink to something like /net/B/etc/hosts.

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