------------------------------------------------------------------- - gen-hosts 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- gen-hosts is a perl utility program for mon that is meant to work along with cf-to-hosts (included in the mon distribution) in order to eliminate your dependency on DNS being up for mon to work properly. The version of cf-to-hosts included in this distribution is a more robust version of cf-to-hosts than is currently included in mon (as of version 0.38.21), because it defaults to using DNS (via the Net::DNS module) instead of gethostbyname(), which will return the first match from your host's /etc/hosts file, if one is available, hence, it will not pick up DNS changes for existing hostnames. It is highly recommended that you use this version of cf-to-hosts along with gen-hosts. Please see the script for more documentation and usage details. mon is available from: http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ gen-hosts should be available from: http://www.nam-shub.com/files/ Andrew Ryan - 2001-01-19