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- gen-hosts 0.1
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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 <andrewr@nam-shub.com> - 2001-01-19