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An issue with /etc/hosts is that it is just one file and you do not want etcd to own all the config you would need to use something like NIS instead.
by jeltz 4y ago
An issue with /etc/hosts is that it is just one file and you do not want etcd to own all the config you would need to use something like NIS instead.
- Fnoord 4y agoAh yes, my bad. /etc/nsswitch.conf (which is also a Linux-ism but BSDs have something similar) supports LDAP. However, an advantage of /etc/hosts is the low latency since its not networked, while LDAP would result to overhead. Still, I believe that would be a suitable alternative. There's some non-bloated alternatives to OpenLDAP, and also an option could be caching.